The Ascension

(Mark 16:19–20, Luke 24:50–53)

So [when] they came together, they asked Him“Lord, {will You} at this time vvv restore the kingdom to Israel?”

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[Jesus] replied“It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority. 8 But you will receive power [when] the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses to Me[fn] in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to [the] ends of the earth.”

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[After] He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight. 10 They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, [when] suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said,“why do you stand [here] looking[fn] 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.”

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