Jesus, the Christ: Ascension of

God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

When Jesus had led them out as far as Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them.

While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?

So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? …

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

…in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

…which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.” …

By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.

For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.