And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
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To Bethany - See the notes at Mar 16:19. Bethany was on the eastern declivity of the Mount of Olives, from which our Lord was taken up to heaven, Act 1:12. Bethany was a favored place. It was the…
Adam Clarke
Carried up into heaven - Ανεφερετο - into that heaven from which he had descended, Joh 1:18; Joh 3:13. This was forty days after his resurrection, Act 1:3, during which time he had given the most…
This evangelist omits the solemn meeting between Christ and his disciples in Galilee; but what he said to them there, and at other interviews, he subjoins to what he said to them at the first visit he…
Cambridge Bible
he was parted front them "A cloud received Him out of their sight," Act 1:9. The original however conveys a clearer impression.
He stood apart from them(aorist) and was gradually borne into heaven.…
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