King James Version with full narration by Alexander Scourby
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Ascension
CategoryTheological Term / Core Doctrine
Modern EquivalentChrist's bodily rising into heaven forty days after the resurrection.
KJV Word TypeNoun
DefinitionThe bodily departure of the risen Jesus Christ from earth to heaven, witnessed by His disciples forty days after His resurrection. The Ascension completed His earthly ministry and ushered in His session at the right hand of the Father, from which He intercedes for believers and from which He will return.
Key Verses"And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." (Acts 1:9); "So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." (Mark 16:19)