JESUS CHRIST, ASCENSION OF
God has gone up with a shout,The LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
You have ascended on high.You have led away captives.You have received gifts among men,yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
26. Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"
27. Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
28. They came near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.
29. They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over."He went in to stay with them.
30. When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
31. Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
32. They said to one another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
33. They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,
34. saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"
35. They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
36. As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them,"Peace be to you."
37. But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38. He said to them,"Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
39. See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."
40. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
41. While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them,"Do you have anything here to eat?"
42. They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
43. He took them, and ate in front of them.
44. He said to them,"This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
45. Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
46. He said to them,"Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
47. and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48. You are witnesses of these things.
49. Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."
50. He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
51. While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.
He said to him,"Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."