Luke 24:51

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49 ^aBehold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city¹ of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”

The Ascension

50 And He led them out ^aas far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them.

51 ^aNow it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven.

52 ^aAnd they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

53 and were continually ^ain the temple praising and blessing God.² Amen.

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Adam Clarke

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Luke 24:51

Carried up into heaven - - into that heaven from which he had descended, John 1:18; John 3:13. This was forty days after his resurrection, Acts 1:3, during which time he had given the most convincing proofs of that resurrection, not only to the apostles, but to many others - to upwards of five hundred at one time, I Corinthians 15:6.

As in his life they had seen the way to the kingdom, and in his death the price of the kingdom, so in his ascension they had the fullest proof of the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the human body, and of his continual intercession at the right hand of God.

There are some remarkable circumstances relative to this ascension mentioned in Acts 1:4-12.

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