Acts 1:9
pAnd when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
καὶ ταῦτα εἰπών, βλεπόντων αὐτῶν ἐπήρθη, καὶ νεφέλη ὑπέλαβεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῶν.
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Mark 16:19 ¶So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
Luke 24:50 ¶And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Acts 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Ver. 9 Mr 16:19 Luk 24:51. As he did not actually give up his life till all was fulfilled, so he did not leave the world till all was revealed by him that was necessary for us.
that they might be eye witnesses, and most unexceptionable.
not by an external help of angels, but by his own power, and the agility of his now glorious body.
this, though a true cloud, yet was a more than ordinarily glorious one, suitable to the majesty of him that used it.