⁵ The company of prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take your master away from you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know; keep silent.”^(A)

³ The company of prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take your master away from you?” And he said, “Yes, I know; keep silent.”^(A)

¹¹ They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”^(A)

² until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.^(A)

⁵ So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.^(A)

⁶ “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.^{(B) 7} Now they know that everything you have given me is from you,

⁵¹ While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.^[a](A)

Israel Assured of God’s Help

God’s Commission to Joshua

1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’s assistant, saying, ² “My servant Moses is dead. Now proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites.^(A)