Ascension of Christ, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 24:7 OT

  Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

• Psalms 68:18 OT

  You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

• Ephesians 4:7 NT

  But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

• Ephesians 4:8 NT

  Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

• John 6:62 NT

  Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

• John 7:33 NT

  Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

• John 14:28 NT

  You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

• John 16:5 NT

  But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

• John 20:17 NT

  Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

• Acts 1:3 NT

  To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

• Acts 1:9 NT

  When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

• Luke 24:50 NT

  He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

• Mark 11:1 NT

  When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

• Acts 1:12 NT

  Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

• Hebrews 9:12 NT

  nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

• Hebrews 10:12 NT

  but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

• Luke 24:26 NT

  Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

• Ephesians 1:20 NT

  which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

• Ephesians 1:21 NT

  far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

• 1 Peter 3:22 NT

  who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

• Hebrews 6:20 NT

  where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

• Romans 8:34 NT

  Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

• Hebrews 9:24 NT

  For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

• John 16:7 NT

  Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.