When the time was come (RV 'when the days were well nigh come') that he should be received up] lit. 'for His Ascension,' St. Luke thus indicating that His painful death would have a glorious issue. Set his face] see Isaiah 50:7. St. Mark states that Jesus went before, and the disciples followed in amazement and apprehension (Mark 10:32).

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