Mark 16:19 (WEB)
So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Catechism · 1
- §659Article 6 · "He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father"Read at vatican.va
“Jesus' final apparition ends with the irreversible entry of his humanity into divine glory, symbolized by the cloud and by heaven, where he is seated from that time forward at God's right hand.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 1:9; 2:33; 7:56; Lk 9:34-35; 24:51; Ex 13:22; Mk 16:19; Ps 110:1.
Fathers and councils · 16
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Also, towards the conclusion of his Gospel, Mark says: “So then, after the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God;” confirming what had been spoken by the prophet: “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, until I make Thy foes Thy footstool.”” — editor's note: Mark xvi. 19.
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Tertullian
““He sitteth at the Father’s right hand”—not the Father at His own.” — editor's note: Mark xvi. 19; Rev. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…kingdom of God, and indeed from the court of heaven itself, all flesh and blood whatsoever; since Jesus is still sitting there at the right hand of the Father, man, yet God—the last Adam, yet the primary Word—flesh and blood, yet purer than ours—who “shall descend in like manner as He ascended into heaven” the same…” — editor's note: Mark xvi. 19.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And again, Looking unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.” — editor's note: Ib. xii. 2. On Cyril’s omission of Mark xvi. 19. see Westcott and Hort.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Now Christ hath gone up on high, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father: but unless He were here also on the earth, He would not thence have cried, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Mark xvi. 19.
Read the whole comment“…humbled the false-accuser, He endureth with the sun: because having vanquished the devil by the Resurrection, He sitteth at the right hand of the Father, where He dieth no more, and death no longer over Him shall have dominion.” — editor's note: Mark xvi. 19.
Read the whole comment“It is further to be observed, that Matthew has also introduced a notice to the effect that, as the women who had seen and heard all these things were going…” — editor's note: [Augustin makes no allusion to the doubtful genuineness of Mark xvi. 9–20. The passage appears in nearly all early Latin codices.—R.]
Read the whole comment“And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by signs following.”” — editor's note: Mark xvi. 19, 20.
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Leo the Great
“On it the apostles take from the Lord’s hands the trumpet of the gospel which is to be preached to all nations, and receive the sacrament of regeneration which they are to bear to the whole world.” — editor's note: Sacramentum regenerationis: the reference in the first part of the sentence seems to be S. Mark xvi. 15, and here in the latter part to S. Matt. xxviii. 19,…
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Catena Aurea on Mark
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The Lord Jesus, who had descended from heaven to give liberty to our weak nature, Himself also ascended above the heavens; wherefore it is said, “So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into…
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By which words He seems to shew clearly enough that the foregoing discourse was the last that He spake to them upon earth, though it does not appear to bind us down altogether to this opinion. For He does not say,…
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We have seen in the Old Testament that Elias was taken up into heaven. But the ethereal heaven is one thing, the aerial is another. The aerial heaven is nearer the earth, Elias then was raised into the aerial heaven,…
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Let us not therefore understand this sitting as though He were placed there in human limbs, as if the Father sat on the left, the Son on the right, but by the right hand itself we understand the power which He as man…
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Observe that in proportion as Mark began his history later, so he makes it reach in writing to more distant times, for he began from the commencement of the preaching of the Gospel by John, and he reaches in his…
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But what should we consider in these words, if it be not that obedience follows the precept and signs follow the obedience? For the Lord had commanded them, “Go into all the world preaching the Gospel,” and, Ye shall…
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But we must also know from this that words are confirmed by deeds as then, in the Apostles, works confirmed their words, for signs followed. Grant then, O Christ, that the good words which we speak may be confirmed…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Mark 16:19–20 (2) (Catena Aurea).