Ephesians 4:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

(When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

Cross References

Genesis 11:5

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

Psalm 139:15

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Psalm 63:9

But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

Psalm 8:5

Yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.

Exodus 19:20

When the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is the person’s name? And what is the name of the person’s child? Surely you know!

Isaiah 44:23

Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob and will be glorified in Israel.

Ezekiel 31:14

All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For all of them are handed over to death, to the world below; along with mortals, with those who go down to the Pit.

Matthew 12:40

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:38

for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:41

Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:58

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which the ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

John 6:62

Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

Hebrews 2:7

You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor,

Hebrews 2:9

but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.