Jesus ascends to heaven
Forty days after he rose, Jesus led his disciples out toward Bethany on the Mount of Olives, blessed them, and was taken up into heaven. Angels told them he would come back in the same way.
When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Acts 1:9 (World English Bible)
He told them to wait in Jerusalem for the promised Holy Spirit and to be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). They returned to the city with great joy and were continually in the temple, praising God (Luke 24:52–53). The story continues in the Acts of the Apostles.
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Dating notes
Ussher: 14 May AD 33, forty days after the resurrection (Acts 1:3), a Thursday. Pentecost followed ten days later, on 24 May, beginning the next era. Ussher's dates put the crucifixion on Friday, 3 April AD 33; many scholars prefer Friday, 7 April AD 30, which would move all of Holy Week three years earlier.