Luke 24:17-21
24:17 Then
he said to them, “What are these matters
you are discussing so intently
as you walk along?” And they stood still, looking sad.
24:18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him,
“Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn’t know
the things that have happened there
in these days?”
24:19 He
said to them, “What things?” “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied, “a man
who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet
before God and all the people;
24:20 and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over
to be condemned to death, and crucified
him.
24:21 But we had hoped
that he was the one who was going to redeem
Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.
Daniel 9:26
9:26 Now after the sixty-two weeks,
an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing.
As for the city and the sanctuary,
the people of the coming prince will destroy them.
But his end will come speedily like a flood.
Until the end of the war that has been decreed
there will be destruction.
Zechariah 13:7
13:7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who is my associate,”
says the Lord who rules over all.
Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.
John 12:8
12:8 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”
John 13:33
13:33 Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me,
and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders,
‘Where I am going you cannot come,’
now I tell you the same.
John 14:3-4
14:3 And if I go and make ready
a place for you, I will come again and take you
to be with me,
so that where I am you may be too.
14:4 And you know the way where I am going.”
John 16:4-7
16:4 But I have told you these things
so that when their time
comes, you will remember that I told you about them.
“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.
16:5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’
16:6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.
16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.
John 16:16-22
16:16 In a little while you
will see me no longer; again after a little while, you
will see me.”
16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
16:18 So they kept on repeating, “What is the meaning of what he says, ‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”
16:19 Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?
16:20 I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.
16:21 When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
16:22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
John 16:28
16:28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn,
I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
John 17:11-13
17:11 I
am no longer in the world, but
they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe
in your name
that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe
and watched over them
in your name
that you have given me. Not one
of them was lost except the one destined for destruction,
so that the scripture could be fulfilled.
17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience
my joy completed
in themselves.
Acts 1:9
1:9 After
he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.
Acts 3:21
3:21 This one
heaven must
receive until the time all things are restored,
which God declared
from times long ago
through his holy prophets.