But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”
Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;
And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
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