Psalms 68:18
18 aYou ascended on high,bleading a host of captives in your train
and creceiving gifts among men,
even among dthe rebellious, ethat the Lord God may dwell there.
Luke 24:49
49And behold, I am sending fthe promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you gare clothed with hpower ifrom on high.”Acts 1:4-5
4And while staying ▼▼Or eating
with them khe ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; 5for lJohn baptized with water, mbut you will be baptized nwith ▼▼Or in
the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” Acts 2:33
33 pBeing therefore qexalted at the right hand of God, and having received from rthe Father sthe promise of the Holy Spirit, the has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.Ephesians 4:8-13
8Therefore it says,u“When he ascended on high vhe led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.” ▼
▼The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
9( xIn saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into ythe lower regions, the earth? ▼
▼Or the lower parts of the earth?
10He who descended is the one who also aaascended abfar above all the heavens, that he might acfill all things.) 11And adhe gave the aeapostles, the prophets, the afevangelists, the agshepherds ▼▼Or pastors
and teachers, ▼▼Or the shepherd-teachers
12 ajto equip the saints for the work of ministry, for akbuilding up althe body of Christ, 13until we all attain to amthe unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, anto mature manhood, ▼▼Greek to a full-grown man
to the measure of the stature of apthe fullness of Christ,
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