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Old Oct 8, 2006, 12:41 pm   #1 (permalink) (top)
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The ‘Ascension’ of Jesus?

According to the earliest full Bible manuscript Codex Sinaiticus , Jesus (peace be upon him) never ‘Ascended’ to heavan ; Mark ends at 16:8 and does not include Mark 16:19 which reads:
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
And Luke Luke 24 :51 does not include the phrase taken up into heaven., James Bentley writes:
The scribe who brought Mark's Gospel to an end in Codex Sinaiticus had no doubt that it finished at chapter 16, verse 8. He underlined the text with a fine artistic squiggle, and wrote, "The Gospel according to Mark." Immediately following begins the Gospel of Luke ( Secrets of Mt. Sinai, James Bentley p. 139)
Ironically, the subject of the Ascension of Jesus Christ is untouched by St. Matthew and St. John in their Gospels and according to textual critic C.S.C. Williams, if the omissions in Codex Sinaiticus are correct there are no references of Ascension in the Gospel text:
The evidence of the manuscript from Mount Sinai was proving more and more difficult to digest. In the received text, Luke chapter 24, verse 51, tells how Jesus left his disciples after his resurrection. He blessed them, was parted from them, 'and was carried up into heaven'. Sinaiticus omits the final clause. As the textual critic C.S.C. Williams observed, if this omission is correct, 'there is no reference at all to the Ascension in the original text of the Gospels'.

(The Secrets of Mount Sinai, James Bently, pg 131
So if Jesus (peace be upon him) didn't 'Ascend' to heavan, where did he go?


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