72 verses about ascension

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so.”

As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

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

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

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. Then the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.

Now give God thanks, because I ascend to him that sent me. Write in a book all the things which have been done.”

Then they rose up, and saw him no more.

Who was taken up in a tempest of fire, In a chariot of fiery horses:

No man was created upon the earth such as was Enoch; For he was taken up from the earth.

When he took up the robe of glory, And put on the perfection of exultation, In the ascent of the holy altar, He made glorious the precinct of the sanctuary.

And they shall see the men that have been taken up, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.

First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.

And it shall be, when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I showed you before, then shall my Son be revealed, whom you saw as a man ascending.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,

From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

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

While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

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

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

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.

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

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

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.’”

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

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

While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,

who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

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

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

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,

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” Psalm 68:18

Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

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;

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

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

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.