Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 24:50

"And he led them out until [they were] over against Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them." — Luke 24:50 (ASV)

And he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

He never had lifted up his hands to strike them, or to invoke curses upon them. Those hands were filled with blessings, and the last thing that was seen of Jesus by human eyes was his hands uplifted in the act of blessing.

And he led them out as far as to Bethany," –

The ruling passion was strong in the hour of his departure. Well did he know that place, Bethany, – the place of love, where he had received a welcome such as he had experienced nowhere else on earth, – where lived Mary, and Martha, and Lazarus; – there did he bid "Good-bye" to his disciples.