Familiar words. Churches have been repeating them for centuries in the Apostles' Creed:

I believe in God the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into Hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

"He ascended...." Up, up, and away. It must have been a very strange sensation for those on the hillside. What was this? A magic show? Jesus suddenly levitating above them, disappearing into a cloud? Uh-huh. What's the trick? Was David Copperfield around there someplace? Okay. You can bring him back. Anyway, we have work to …