John 6:62 {63}
Good News Translation
Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?

New Revised Standard Version
Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

Contemporary English Version
What if you should see the Son of Man go up to heaven where he came from?

New American Bible
What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

John 16:28 I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.

John 17:4,5,11 I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. . . .

Mark 16:19 And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God.

Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, whilst he blessed them, he departed from them and was carried up to heaven.

Acts 1:9 And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Ephesians 4:8-10 Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive: he gave gifts to men. . . .

1 Peter 3:22 Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.

Context
Many Disciples Turn Back
61But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you? 62If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.…
Cross References
Matthew 8:20
And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Mark 16:19
And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God.

John 3:13
And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

John 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

John 6:42
And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he: I came down from heaven?

John 6:53
Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

John 6:61
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