I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
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,
Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
“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.
While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
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