Robertson Word Pictures - Mark 16:19 - 16:19

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Robertson Word Pictures - Mark 16:19 - 16:19


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Was received up into heaven (anelēmpthē eis ton ouranon). First aorist passive indicative. Luke gives the fact of the Ascension twice in Gospel (Luk 24:50.) and Act 1:9-11. The Ascension in Mark took place after Jesus spoke to the disciples, not in Galilee (Mar 16:15-18), nor on the first or second Sunday evening in Jerusalem. We should not know when it took place nor where but for Luke who locates it on Olivet (Luk 24:50) at the close of the forty days (Act 1:3) and so after the return from Galilee (Mat 28:16).

Sat down at the right hand of God (ekathisen ek dexiōn tou theou). Swete notes that the author “passes beyond the field of history into that of theology,” an early and most cherished belief (Act 7:55.; Rom 8:34; Eph 1:20; Col 3:1; Heb 1:3; Heb 8:1; Heb 10:12; Heb 12:2; 1Pe 3:22; Rev 3:21).