Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"

Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he formerly existed?

But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.

Thus it is said, When he ascended on high he led a host captive and granted gifts to men.

What does he ascended mean, except that he first descended to the nether regions of the earth?

He who descended is he who ascended above all the heavens to fill the universe;