"No," Jesus answered, "even though I do testify on my own behalf, what I say is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. You do not know where I came from or where I am going.

It was now the day before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. He had always loved those in the world who were his own, and he loved them to the very end.

Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had come from God and was going to God.

But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me where I am going.

"In a little while you will not see me any more, and then a little while later you will see me."

You heard me say to you, 'I am leaving, but I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father; for he is greater than I.

Father! Give me glory in your presence now, the same glory I had with you before the world was made.

And now I am coming to you; I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world. Holy Father! Keep them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one just as you and I are one.

And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they might have my joy in their hearts in all its fullness.

As the time drew near when Jesus would be taken up to heaven, he made up his mind and set out on his way to Jerusalem.

As he was blessing them, he departed from them and was taken up into heaven.

After saying this, he was taken up to heaven as they watched him, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

and said, "Galileans, why are you standing there looking up at the sky? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you saw him go to heaven."