Ascensão
A ascensão de Jesus ao céu é a coroação de sua obra redentora. Ele subiu à destra do Pai, de onde voltará com poder e glória para buscar os seus.
And when he had said these things, in their sight he was lifted up, and a cloud received him from their eyes.
And when they beheld him going into heaven, lo! two men stood beside them in white clothing,
and said, Men of Galilee, what stand ye beholding into heaven? This Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall come, as ye saw him going into heaven.
And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and he sitteth on the right half of God.
And he led them forth into Bethany, and when his hands were lifted up, he blessed them.
And it was done, the while he blessed them [or while he blessed them], he departed from them, and was borne into heaven.
In the house of my Father be many dwellings; if anything less, I had said to you, for I go to make ready to you a place.
Truly, truly, I say to you, if a man believeth in me [or he that believeth in me], also he shall do the works that I do; and he shall do greater works than these, for I go to the Father.
I went out from the Father, and I came into the world; again I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Jesus saith to her, Do not thou touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.
Therefore Jesus said to them, Yet a little time I am with you, and I go to the Father, that sent me.
And openly it is a great sacrament of piety, that thing that was showed in flesh, it is justified in Spirit, it appeared to angels, it is preached to heathen men, it is believed in the world, it is taken up into glory.