8 Bible Verses about Jesus Christ, Ascension Of

where Jesus has gone ahead of us, and become forever a high priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek.

but only the high priest could enter the inner part, and he but once a year, and never without taking some victim's blood, to offer on his own behalf and for the sins committed through ignorance by the people.

And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God,

taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance.

Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me where I am going,

who has gone to heaven and is at God's right hand, with angels, hierarchies, and powers made subject to him.

Did not the Christ have to suffer thus before entering upon his glory?"

he exerted in raising Christ from the dead, and seating him at his right hand in heaven, far above all hierarchies, authorities, powers, and dominions, and all titles that can be bestowed not only in this world but in the world to come.

So it says, "When he went up on high, he led a host of captives, And gave gifts to mankind."

And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers,

But each one of us has been given mercy in Christ's generous measure. So it says, "When he went up on high, he led a host of captives, And gave gifts to mankind."

And he led them out as far as Bethany. Then he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

Then they went back to Jerusalem from the hill called the Olive-orchard, which is near Jerusalem, half a mile away.

taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance.

But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands and only copied after the true one that Christ entered, but he went into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.

And while they were gazing after him into the sky, two men dressed in white suddenly stood beside them, and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

where Jesus has gone ahead of us, and become forever a high priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek.

And he led them out as far as Bethany. Then he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God.

As he said this, he was caught up before their eyes and a cloud took him up from their sight.

And they went back with great joy to Jerusalem,

And they went back with great joy to Jerusalem,