As they were looking (βλεποντων αυτων). Genitive absolute. The present participle accents the fact that they were looking directly…

While they beheld. While they saw him. It was of importance to state that circumstance, and to state it distinctly. It is not aff…

He was taken up; and a cloud received him . . .—It is remarkable how little stress is laid in the Gospels on the fact tha…

Luke wrote before concerning the two men, in shining garments, who said to the women at the sepulcher, Why seek you the living among the dead? …

For Jesus’ ascension Luke simply says that he “was taken up.” He tells us very little else about it except that it occurred after Jesus had given h…

The readers may learn from our Institutions what profit we reap from the ascension of Christ. Nevertheless, because it is one of the chief points o…

They were earnest in asking about what their Master had never directed or encouraged them to seek. Our Lord knew that his ascension and the teachin…