Bible verses by topic / Ascension
When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.”
My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.