Ep. 151: The Ascension

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1 CORINTHIANS 15:6, LUKE 24:44-53

We are once more in Jerusalem, where he had told them to go to tarry for the fulfilment of the great promise. Pentecost (Shavuot, to be specific) was drawing close. And on that last day - the day of his Ascension - he led them on to Bethany. From here he had made his last triumphal entry into Jerusalem before his crucifixion, now would he make his triumphant entry visibly into heaven. Once more would they have asked him about that which seemed to them the final consummation - the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel. But it wasn’t the time for such questions. Theirs was to be work, not rest; suffering, not triumph. The great promise before them was of spiritual, not outward, power, of the Holy Spirit - and their call not yet to reign with him, but to bear witness for him.

This is an extract from the book, Jesus : Life and Times, available for £12 here (Finalist for Academic Book of the year at 2023 CRT awards)

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