Taken up
Forty days after he rose, Jesus was taken up before the apostles on the mount called Olivet, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
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Before he was taken up, the apostles asked whether he would at that time restore the kingdom to Israel. He answered that it was not for them to know the times or the seasons, but that they would receive power when the Holy Ghost came upon them, and be witnesses “in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
As they looked steadfastly toward heaven, two men stood by them in white apparel and said, “this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). They returned to Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey, with great joy.
On the Mount of Olives a small domed chapel, later a mosque, keeps a stone said to bear his last footprint, and the Russian church of the Ascension rises nearby with its tall bell tower. The mount, covered with ancient graves and olive groves, looks across the Kidron valley to the walls of the old city.
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, KJV
Where it happened
The mount called Olivet, The Mount of Olives, Jerusalem.
The Mount of Olives, east of the old city across the Kidron valley.
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Sources and editorial method
Research and editorial references used for this page include:
- The King James Bible, as published by bible-api.com
- The Book of Enoch, translated by R. H. Charles (1917), Project Gutenberg
Every story is told from the King James Bible, and from the Book of Enoch in R. H. Charles’s translation (1917) where a story names it. Every quotation was checked word for word against those texts. Where a place is not known, the page says so. The paintings and the narration were made for the house.
