9 Upon saying these things, as they watched, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.

10 And as they were staring into the sky, while He was going, suddenly two men in white clothing* stood beside them; 11 and they said: "Men of Galilee,* why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This very Jesus who is being taken up from you into the sky, He will come again in the precise manner that you observed Him going into the sky."*

19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at God’s right.

50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up His hands He blessed them. 51 And it happened, as He was blessing them, that He left them and was carried up into heaven.

2 In my Father’s house are many dwellings* (otherwise I would have told you).* I am going away to prepare a place for you.

12 "Most assuredly I say to you,* the one believing into me, he too will do the works that I do;*! The verb ‘believe’ is in the present tense, 2nd person singular; if you (sg) are believing you will do; it follows that if you are not doing it is because you are not believing. 2 + 2 = 4. Doing what? "The works that I do." Well, Jesus preached the Gospel, He taught, He cast out demons, He healed all sorts and sizes of sickness and disease, He raised an occasional dead person, and He performed a variety of miracles (water to wine, walk on water, stop a storm instantaneously, transport a boat several miles instantaneously, multiply food, shrivel a tree—and He implied that the disciples should have stopped the storm and multiplied the food, and He stated that they could shrivel a tree [Peter actually took a few steps on water]). So how about us? The preaching and teaching we can handle, but what about the rest? I once heard the president of a certain Christian college affirm that this verse obviously could not mean what it says because it is not happening! Well, in his own experience and in that of his associates I guess it is not. But many people today cast out demons and heal, and I personally know someone who has raised a dead person. Miracles are also happening. So how about me? And you? in fact he will do greater works than these,* because I am going to my Father.

28 I did come forth from the Father and have come into the world. I am leaving the world again* and am going to the Father."

17 Jesus says to her: "Stop clinging 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—my God and your God.’ "

33 Then Jesus said: "For a little while I am still with you, and then I go to the One who sent me.