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

The time came for the LORD to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elijah and Elisha set out from Gilgal,

A group of prophets who lived there went to Elisha and asked him, "Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master away from you today?" "Yes, I know," Elisha answered. "But let's not talk about it."

After the Lord Jesus had talked with them, he was taken up to heaven and sat at the right side of God.

Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?

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.

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

I did come from the Father, and I came into the world; and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

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.

until the day he was taken up to heaven. Before he was taken up, he gave instructions by the power of the Holy Spirit to the men he had chosen as his apostles.

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

which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.

As the scripture says, "When he went up to the very heights, he took many captives with him; he gave gifts to people."

So the one who came down is the same one who went up, above and beyond the heavens, to fill the whole universe with his presence.

No one can deny how great is the secret of our religion: He appeared in human form, was shown to be right by the Spirit, and was seen by angels. He was preached among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, and was taken up to heaven.

On our behalf Jesus has gone in there before us and has become a high priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

who has gone to heaven and is at the right side of God, ruling over all angels and heavenly authorities and powers.

I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over!

The LORD has given me understanding, and I have not rebelled or turned away from him.

But their insults cannot hurt me because the Sovereign LORD gives me help. I brace myself to endure them. I know that I will not be disgraced,

The Sovereign LORD himself defends me--- who, then, can prove me guilty? All my accusers will disappear; they will vanish like moth-eaten cloth.

And now, in obedience to the Holy Spirit I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.

But I reckon my own life to be worth nothing to me; I only want to complete my mission and finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do, which is to declare the Good News about the grace of God.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied up his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: The owner of this belt will be tied up in this way by the Jews in Jerusalem, and they will hand him over to the Gentiles."

But he answered, "What are you doing, crying like this and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be tied up in Jerusalem but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.

Since Christ suffered physically, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had; because whoever suffers physically is no longer involved with sin.