8 Bible Verses about Jesus Christ, Ascension Of
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Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.
I left the Father and came into the world. Now I'm leaving the world and going back to the Father."
Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?
Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.
So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
After saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
From Thematic Bible
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » Typified
"He is to slaughter the male goat as a sin offering for the people and bring its blood beyond the curtain and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull: He is to sprinkle it on the Mercy Seat that is, over the surface of the Mercy Seat.
where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
But only the high priest went into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance.
This illustration for today indicates that the gifts and sacrifices being offered could not clear the conscience of a worshiper,
Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » Foretold by himself
Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.
You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » Was to supreme power and dignity
who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.
The Messiah had to suffer these things and then enter his glory, didn't he?"
which he brought about in the Messiah when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realm. He is far above every ruler, authority, power, dominion, and every name that can be named, not only in the present age, but also in the one to come.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » To receive gifts for men
You ascended to the heights, you took captives. You received gifts among mankind, even the rebellious, so the LORD God may live there.
That is why God says, "When he went up to the highest place, he led captives into captivity and gave gifts to people."
And it is he who gifted some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, and still others to be pastors and teachers,
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » Prophecies respecting
You ascended to the heights, you took captives. You received gifts among mankind, even the rebellious, so the LORD God may live there.
Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors, so the King of Glory may come in.
Now to each one of us grace has been given proportionate to the measure of the Messiah's gift. That is why God says, "When he went up to the highest place, he led captives into captivity and gave gifts to people."
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » From mount olivet
Later, he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
When they came near Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead
Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » When he had atoned for sin
Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.
But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God."
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » To intercede
For the Messiah did not go into a sanctuary made by human hands that is merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear now in God's presence on our behalf.
Who is the one to condemn? It is the Messiah Jesus who is interceding on our behalf. He died, and more importantly, has been raised and is seated at the right hand of God.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » To send the holy ghost
However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
He has been exalted to the right hand of God, has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and has caused you to experience what you are seeing and hearing.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » His second coming shall be in like manner as
While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, two men in white robes stood right beside them. They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » As the forerunner of his people
where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » Was triumphant
You ascended to the heights, you took captives. You received gifts among mankind, even the rebellious, so the LORD God may live there.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » While blessing his disciples
Later, he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » To prepare a place for his people
There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » Forty days after his resurrection
After he had suffered, he had shown himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during a period of 40 days and telling them about the kingdom of God.
Jesus Christ, Ascension Of » Described
After saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.