secundum Matthæum 24:51

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Et factum est, dum benediceret illis, recessit ab eis, et ferebatur in cælum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et factum est, dum benediceret illis, recessit ab eis, et ferebatur in c�lum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et factum est, dum benediceret illis, recessit ab eis et ferebatur in caelum.

Bible Verse Review
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he was: 2 Kings 2:11, Mark 16:19, John 20:17, Acts 1:9, Ephesians 4:8-10, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 4:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:4 - that my Numbers 6:23 - General Deuteronomy 33:1 - the blessing 1 Kings 8:14 - blessed all 2 Kings 2:5 - thy master 2 Kings 2:12 - he saw him 1 Chronicles 16:2 - he blessed 2 Chronicles 6:3 - blessed Psalms 47:5 - God Psalms 68:18 - ascended Psalms 72:20 - The prayers Mark 10:16 - General Luke 2:15 - into Luke 9:51 - that Luke 19:12 - a far John 6:62 - General John 14:28 - If John 16:22 - But John 16:28 - I leave Acts 1:2 - the day 2 Corinthians 12:2 - caught 1 Timothy 3:16 - received Hebrews 7:7 - the less Hebrews 9:24 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, while he blessed them,.... Just as he was finishing the words, by which he expressed the blessings he bestowed on them:

he was parted from them; as Elijah was from Elisha: their spiritual and mystical union by him remained, which is indissoluble; nor was his gracious presence from them withdrawn; nor was this parting in anger and resentment, as he sometimes does withdraw from his people, on account of their sinful conduct, in a little wrath, for a moment, resenting their unbecoming carriage; but this parting was while he was blessing them, and was only in body; his heart was still with them; it was a withdrawing of his corporeal presence from them, and that but for a while; he will come again a second time from heaven, from whence the saints expect him, and then they will meet, and never part more: and carried up into heaven; by his divine power, as God, by virtue of which he ascended himself, he went up gradually, till he became invisible to his disciples; or through the agility of his human body; for the bodies of the saints, when raised, will be like the angels, swift and nimble, and capable of moving from place to place, and of ascending and descending; and much more the glorious body of Christ, according to which, theirs will be conformed; though neither of these deny the use of means, that might be made, as of a cloud, and of angels; for a cloud received him out of the sight of the apostles; and there were the twenty thousand chariots of God, even thousands of angels, which attended him, when he ascended on high, and in which he may be properly said to be carried up into heaven, Acts 1:9 where he was received with a welcome, by his Father, by all the glorified saints, and holy angels, and where he is placed in human nature, at the right hand of God; is crowned with glory, and honour, and exalted above all creatures, human or angelic; and where he will remain until the time of the restitution of all things, and then he will descend to judge the quick and dead. The Arabic and Ethiopic Versions read both these clauses actively, "he parted himself", or "he departed from them, and went up into heaven"; and so reads the Syriac version the last clause.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To Bethany - See the notes at Mark 16:19. Bethany was on the eastern declivity of the Mount of Olives, from which our Lord was taken up to heaven, Acts 1:12. Bethany was a favored place. It was the abode of Martha, and Mary, and Lazarus, and our Saviour delighted to be there. From this place, also, he ascended to his Father and our Father, and to his God and our God.

While he blessed them - While he commanded his benediction to rest upon them; while he assured them of his favor, and commended them to the protection and guidance of God, in the dangers, trials, and conflicts which they were to meet in a sinful and miserable world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 24:51. Carried up into heaven. — ανεφερετο - into that heaven from which he had descended, John 1:18; John 3:13. This was forty days after his resurrection, Acts 1:3, during which time he had given the most convincing proofs of that resurrection, not only to the apostles, but to many others-to upwards of five hundred at one time, 1 Corinthians 15:6.

As in his life they had seen the way to the kingdom, and in his death the price of the kingdom, so in his ascension they had the fullest proof of the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the human body, and of his continual intercession at the right hand of God.

There are some remarkable circumstances relative to this ascension mentioned in Acts 1:4-12.