Now, before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour came that He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

we are of good courage, I say, and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has arrived.

With

And the man, from whom the demons had gone forth, was begging Him that he might be with Him; but He sent him away, saying,

And He said to him, "Verily I say to you, "To-day you shall be with Me in Paradise."

And, if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again, and will receive you to Myself; that, where I am, ye may be also.

Father, as to what Thou hast given Me, I desire that they also maybe with Me, where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; because Thou didst love Me before the founding of a world.

And they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

we are of good courage, I say, and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

after that we, the living who are left over, will be caught up together with them in clouds, into the air, to meet the Lord; and so shall we always be with the Lord.

And I heard a voice from Heaven, saying, "Write: Happy are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Yea," saith the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."

Far

And I have said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are those who come out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

Happy is that servant whom his lord, when he comes, shall find so doing.

"If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments;

For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.