Ascension: What does it mean?
Message . What do we understand by the Ascension Today is Ascension Sunday (at least according to my reading of the lectionary) and so I thought it was worth looking at this particular event in both versions of Luke; essentially volume 1 and 2, alternatively known as the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. First of all my question to you is what do you understand by the Ascension? What picture is generated in your mind when you hear or read about it in the Bible versions. So when I read both of these versions from Luke (Luke 24:44-53 and Acts 1: 1-11), I was initially struck by two things. Firstly, they are slightly different and secondly both versions also link in the coming of the Kingdom. Let’s take the first point, does it matter that the two versions vary? After all, it has got to be a bit odd that a story written by the same author about the same events has been changed hasn’t it? Well, in the time that Luke lived, it was common prac