He is believed by Christians to have risen from his tomb after three days, appeared to his disciples several times, and ascended to Heaven after 40 days 2. Son of Sirach. 3rd century bc, author of the Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © ...
Notice what He didn’t say. He didn’t say, “Someday this Scripture will be fulfilled” nor “This Scripture has already be fulfilled.” No, he said, “Today, renight here, it is being fulfilled.” In so many words, he said loud and clear, “What Isaiah said about that Someone—...
The fact that we teach that Christ Jesus ascended into Heaven, which is outside of all time and space, means that we can posit that he has an eternal and timeless priesthood. “You are a priest forever of the order of Melchizedek” (Ps 110:4). His sacrifice is for all time and spac...
Having ascended to the Father, He received from the Father the Spirit. The Father pours out the Spirit "through the Son" upon the Church. The "first Pentecost" Return of Jesus from heaven to earth I gazed into the visions of the night and I saw coming on the clouds of heaven, One ...
13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. h 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever be- lieves in him may have eternal life. i 16 "For God so loved the...
According to the "Toledot" his disciples sought for his body in the tomb, but being unable to find it they used the incident as proof before Queen Helena that he who had been slain had ascended into heaven. It then appeared that a man—sometimes called "Judas the Gardener" (Judas Iscari...
Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven - In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to
Himself also co-equal with the Father and the Son, and pertaining to the unity of the Trinity. Yet not that this Trinity was born of the Virgin Mary, and crucified under Pontius Pilate, buried and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven, but only the Son. Nor, again, that...
His followers listened and watched as Jesus ascended to heaven as promised. Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He wastaken up,and a cloud received Him out of their sight. Acts 1:9 Peter discloses to hecklers to the Pentecost that they also saw and know the actions...
And Jesus ascended into heaven 40 days after His resurrection, meaning that the disciples spent 10 days together in Jerusalem before the day of Pentecost. So there was less than two weeks between when Jesus gave his instruction about baptism and when Peter made this statement to the crowd in...