And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and I will receive you unto Myself; so that where I am, there you may be also.

I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.

"A little [while] and you will not see Me; and again a little [while] and you will see Me, because I am going to the Father."

Therefore they said, "What is this that He says, 'A little [while]'? We do not understand what He is saying."

Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be grieved, but your grief will be turned into joy.

Therefore you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

Nevertheless I speak the truth to you. It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet.

For God is King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding.

You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive, You have received gifts among men, yea, for [they were] rebellious, that You might dwell among them.

O God, You will grant to Your inheritance a gracious rain; for it was weary, but You have refreshed it.

And it happened, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

and they were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen.

Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,

"Most assuredly I say to you, he that believes in Me, the works which I do he will do also; and greater [works] than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

"A little [while] and you will not see Me; and again a little [while] and you will see Me, because I am going to the Father."

Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.'"

Because of this the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but also He called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

I and the Father are one."

but if I am doing [them], even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

Most assuredly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than he who sent him.

Therefore Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! Just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."

Jacob is My servant, I will help him; Israel is My elect, My soul has accepted him; I have put My Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

And now thus says the Lord, who formed me from the womb to be His own servant, to gather Jacob to Him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes; kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake; for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen you.

the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form [Him] with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.

"Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the Gentiles.

But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Then [will be] the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He abolishes every ruler and every authority and power.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Now when all things are made subject to Him, then also the Son Himself will be subjected to Him who subjected all things to Him, in order that God may be all in all.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,

has in these last days spoken to us by [the] Son, whom He has appointed heir [of] all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

who being the effulgence of His glory and the exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, through the suffering of death, having been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Behold I and the children to whom God has given Me."

and that He might set free these, as many as by fear of death through all of their lives, were subject to bondage.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus Christ,

For this One has been counted worthy of more honor than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.

saying, "That which you see, write in a book and send to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as [if] dead. But He put His right hand on me, saying, "Do not fear; I am the First and the Last.

I am He who lives, and became dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Death and of Hades.