“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.

Then he said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man.

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.

Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”

Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

Then a second time the crowd shouted, “Hallelujah!” The smoke rises from her forever and ever.

When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. After he sat down his disciples came to him.

And after he sent the crowds away, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

When he left there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up a mountain, where he sat down.

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way,

“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death,

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.