¹² Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!” And as they disappeared from sight, Elisha tore his clothes in distress.

Elisha’s Final Prophecy

¹⁴ When Elisha was in his last illness, King Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him. “My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!” he cried.

¹² Then a loud voice from heaven called to the two prophets, “Come up here!” And they rose to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched.

⁸ That is why the Scriptures say,

⁴ While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.

² We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing.

² (Some devout men came and buried Stephen with great mourning.)

⁹ After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him.

¹³ No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man^[a] has come down from heaven.

⁵¹ While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up to heaven.