So the Lord Jesus, after speaking to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
John 7:33 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then Jesus said, ‘I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the one who sent me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore Jesus said, For a little while I am [still] with you, and then I go back to Him Who sent Me. American Standard Version (1901) Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me. Common English Bible Therefore, Jesus said, “I’m still with you for a little while before I go to the one who sent me. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, Jesus said to them: "For a brief time, I am still with you, and then I am going to him who sent me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me. |
So the Lord Jesus, after speaking to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, that he had come from God, and that he was going back to God.
Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.”
‘Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.
In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too.
You have heard me tell you, “I am going away and I am coming to you.” If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.’
But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, “Where are you going? ”
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.
‘Don’t cling to me,’ Jesus told her, ‘since I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’
We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.