Bible verses on ascension

Ascension of Christ, The


- Prophecies respecting

Ps 24:7 Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.

Ps 68:18 You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

Eph 4:7 But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

Eph 4:8 For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.


- Foretold by himself

Joh 6:62 What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

Joh 7:33 Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.

Joh 14:28 Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

Joh 16:5 But now I am going to him who sent me; and not one of you says to me, Where are you going?

Joh 20:17 Jesus said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.


- Forty days after his resurrection

Ac 1:3 And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:


- Described

Ac 1:9 And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.


- From Mount Olivet

Lu 24:50 And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing.

Mr 11:1 And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Beth-phage and Bethany, at the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

Ac 1:12 Then they went back to Jerusalem from the mountain named Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.


- While blessing his disciples

Lu 24:50 And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing.


- When he had atoned for sin

Heb 9:12 And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

Heb 10:12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;


- Was triumphant

Ps 68:18 You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.


- Was to supreme power and dignity

Lu 24:26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

Eph 1:20 By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

Eph 1:21 Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:

1Pe 3:22 Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.


- As the forerunner of his people

Heb 6:20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.


- To intercede

Ro 8:34 Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.

Heb 9:24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.


- To send the Holy Spirit

Joh 16:7 But what I am saying is true: my going is for your good: for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

Ac 2:33 And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.


- To receive gifts for men

Ps 68:18 You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

Eph 4:8 For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

Eph 4:11 And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;


- To prepare a place for his people

Joh 14:2 In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?


- His second coming shall be in like manner as

Ac 1:10 And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing,

Ac 1:11 And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.


- Typified

Le 16:15 Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark.

Heb 6:20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Heb 9:7 But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

Heb 9:9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

Heb 9:12 And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.