enters the Christian tradition until Ephesians 4:8–10. Luke gives us premonitions of Jesus’ ascension into heaven as early as his rejection in a Samaritan village (Luke 9:51) and as late as his address to the Sanhedrin council (22:69). But only here, and in Luke’s other writing at the outset of Acts, does the New Testament give a specific time and place for this lifting up of Jesus. What interests Luke is not what happens to Jesus in the act of being “carried up.” His focus rests on the disciples