Luke 9:51

As the time draws near for His ascension, Jesus resolutely sets His face toward Jerusalem. He deliberately moves toward the cross to accomplish His mission.

Cross-references · 27

• Isa 50:5–9The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
• Luke 18:31He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
• Luke 13:22He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.
• Mark 16:19So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
• Acts 20:22–24Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
• John 17:11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• John 6:62Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
• Acts 1:2until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
• Eph 4:8–11Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
• Acts 1:9When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
• John 16:5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
• Heb 6:20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
• John 16:28I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
• Luke 19:28Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
• Eph 1:20which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
• 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• Acts 21:11–14Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
• Luke 17:11As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
• 2 Kgs 2:11As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
• Luke 24:51While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.
• Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
• 2 Kgs 2:1–3When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
• Luke 19:11As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
• Phil 3:14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

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