51And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
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And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 50-53)This evangelist omits the solemn meeting between Christ and his disciples in Galilee ; but what he said to them there, and at other interviews, he subjoins to what he said to them at the first visit he made them on the evening of the day he rose; and has now nothing more to account for but his ascension into heaven, of which we have a very brief narrative in these verses, in which we are told, I.…
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