⁵¹ While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.^(A)

¹⁰ He who descended is the very one who ascended^(A) higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)^(B)

² My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there^(A) to prepare a place for you? ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back^(B) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.^(C)

⁹ After he said this, he was taken up^(A) before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰ They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white^(B) stood beside them. ¹¹ “Men of Galilee,”^(C) they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back^(D) in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

¹⁶ I have not stopped giving thanks for you,^(A) remembering you in my prayers.^{(B) 17} I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,^(C) may give you the Spirit^[a] of wisdom^(D) and revelation, so that you may know him better. ¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened^(E) in order that you may know the hope to which he has called^(F) you, the riches^(G) of his glorious inheritance^(H) in his holy people,^{(I) 19} and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power^(J) is the same as the mighty strength^{(K) 20} he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead^(L) and seated him at his right hand^(M) in the heavenly realms,^{(N) 21} far above all rule and authority, power and dominion,^(O) and every name^(P) that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.^{(Q) 22} And God placed all things under his feet^(R) and appointed him to be head^(S) over everything for the church, ²³ which is his body,^(T) the fullness of him^(U) who fills everything in every way.^(V)