'Heaven' in the Bible

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about."

When all the people had been baptized, Jesus, too, was baptized. While he was praying, heaven opened,

and the Holy Spirit descended on him, appearing in the form of a dove. Then a voice came from heaven, saying, "You are my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with you!"

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because your reward in heaven is great! That's the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to the disciples to pass on to the crowd.

When the days grew closer for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he was determined to continue his journey to Jerusalem.

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell!

He told them, "I watched Satan falling from heaven like lightning.

However, stop rejoicing because the spirits are submitting to you. Instead, rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

At that moment, the Holy Spirit made Jesus extremely joyful, so Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this is what was pleasing to you.

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"

Others, wanting to test Jesus, kept asking him for a sign from heaven.

"Sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don't wear out a dependable treasure in heaven, where no thief can get close and no moth can destroy anything.

In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don't need to repent."

I will get up, go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.

Then his son told him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you. I don't deserve to be called your son anymore.'

However, it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be dropped.

But on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed all of them.

"But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, "O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!'

When Jesus heard this, he told him, "You still need to do one thing. Sell everything you have and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

They said, "How blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!"

Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans?"

They discussed this among themselves: "If we say, "From heaven,' he will ask, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places, and there will be fearful events and awful signs from heaven."

People will faint from fear and apprehension because of the things that are to come on the inhabited world, because the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words won't ever disappear."

Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.

While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up to heaven.