Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

The last drops of my own sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come.

With

The man whom the daemons had left begged that he might accompany him. Jesus, however, sent him away, saying,

"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: ??'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit ??blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"

Far

I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

If you love me you will keep my commands,

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;