¹² Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots^(A) and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore^(B) it in two.

¹⁴ Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots^(A) and horsemen of Israel!”

¹² Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.”^(A) And they went up to heaven in a cloud,^(B) while their enemies looked on.

⁸ This is why it^[a] says:

⁴ For while we are in this tent, we groan^(A) and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^(B) so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

² Meanwhile we groan,^(A) longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^(B)

² Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.

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

¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven^(A) except the one who came from heaven^(B)—the Son of Man.^[a](C)

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