50-53. The Ascension.

50. he led them out Not of course at the conclusion of the last scene, but at the end of the forty days, Acts 1:3.

as far as to Bethany Rather, as far as towards Bethany (pros, א, B, C, D, &c.). The traditional scene of the Ascension is the central summit of the Mount of Olives (Jebel et-Tur);but it is far more probable that it took place in one of the secluded uplands which lie about the village. See a beautiful passage in Dean Stanley's Sinai and Palestine, ch. 3.

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