Matt. 28:16-20, Luke 24:46-53, Acts 1:4-14
JESUS used to come and see His disciples after He was made alive again. But He did not stay with them for long.
He told them He was soon going up to His Father. ‘When I am gone, you must tell people about Me. You must tell the people who crucified Me that I will forgive them if they will believe on Me. The Holy Spirit will come down from heaven, for My Father has promised to send Him down soon. Wait at Jerusalem till He comes. I will always be with you, though you do not see Me. Some day I shall come back again.’
The disciples asked Jesus when He would come back, but Jesus would not tell them.
One day Jesus and His disciples walked together to the top of a hill. Jesus began to pray with His disciples and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. While He was doing this, He was taken up to heaven, and a cloud hid Him at last from the eyes of His disciples.
They still looked up and saw the cloud go higher and higher till they could see it no more. But still they went on looking. Then they heard some persons speaking to them. When they looked to see who it was, they saw two angels standing beside them.
The angels were dressed in white shining clothes. They said, ‘Why do you look so long at the sky? Jesus will come again someday.’ The disciples then went back to Jerusalem to wait for the Holy Spirit.
Perhaps you think they were very unhappy, now that Jesus was gone? No, they were not. They knew He had gone to get a place in heaven ready for them, and that they would live with Him there forever. This made them glad.
Questions
Can you tell me a verse about loving Jesus?
Did Jesus live always with His disciples after He was alive again, or did He only come to see them sometimes?
What did Jesus tell His disciples to do when He went back to His Father?
Did He tell them when He would come back?
What was Jesus doing just before He went away in the cloud?
Who spoke to the disciples as they were looking at the cloud?
Were the disciples unhappy when Jesus was gone?
Why were they not unhappy?
How Jesus left His disciples, after He had risen from the dead:
A verse from the Bible for you to learn:
And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. Luke 24:51.