In these times of widespread apostasy, Bishop Wright’s teachings are like a wonderful and rejuvenating breath of fresh air. ✔️

While most of this makes sense, I am a bit uncertain of reading the passage this way, as Acts 17:21 says (ESV) : "Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new." This really seems to put the context more in terms of interest rather than trial.

Profound and magnificent!

God has been telling me this lately as I study His word! Heaven is all around us but we just don't see it yet. This gives me a better understanding of the joy we have in our Christ Jesus! Thank you for this explanation N.T. Wright.

What I want to know is why has none of this happened yet? Why has Jesus not returned? It has been over two thousand years. Why should we believe Jesus (or anyone) is coming back? I think this is a question the first Christians wrestled with as well.

The way you explained this section of Mark, was truly enlightening, different from others scholars... Alive it was.

A work of fiction. A bit like Harry Potter.

It seems to me that N.T. Wright does not answer clearly His most basic question-- where did Jesus go when He "ascended to heaven"? He acknowledges that Jesus ascended bodily before the disciples, but speaks ambiguously about the place to which His body went AFTER the ascension. He insists, on the one hand, that Jesus did not pass into a "spiritual" realm, because such a view, he says, substitues a Platonic cosmology for a Christian one. On the other hand, he also insists that Jesus´ body did not go off to some distant quadrant of this present physical universe, since scientists assure us that heaven is nowhere to be found in this cosmos; but how could any scientist be dogmatic on that point, since the limits of the physical universe transcend what can be seen through the instruments of science? Whether or not heaven is located in some distant corner of the universe is a question that science cannot answer, therefore. If the body that ascended was a physical body, it would have to go to a physical location somewhere, wouldn´t it? Wright seems to suggest that Jesus´ body passed into another dimension, parallel to this present dimension, but hidden from our sight. But is this "parallel dimension" a physical dimension? It would have to be, if Jesus human body is still a physical body, located somewhere in particular. Or does Wright imagine that, upon passing to this "other dimension", Jesus´ physical body was transmuted in some way, so that instead of being localized anywhere in particular, it is equally present everywhere, but hidden from our sight? Would that not be then to attribute divine attributes to the human nature of Jesus? By sidestepping such questions, Wright´s entire discourse remains mired in ambiguity, and he never clearly answers his own question.

He decomposed, like all life does in the end.

When I read Ephesians I always identify the "you/your" pronouns as Gentile believers, and the "we/us" pronouns as the Jewish believers. Not sure if this is correct, but chs. 2, 3, and 4 seem to suggest the coming together of Jew and Gentile into one body, fulfilling the promise given to Abraham.

Thank you from Florida. Your explanation adds so much depth to my understanding when I read Ephesians. And thank you also for your “Romans for Everyone”. That set the train back on the tracks for me. Everyone should get a copy.

I do have some questions when Jesus says I'm not the king of this world in John (where is the heaven then? I tot it's supposed to be on the earth?) how did Jesus go from dead to being alive? (modern biologists always claim it's impossible for dead cells to become alive again. So how are we going to understand this passage? God destroy the dead cell to create a new one? ) when Jesus ascend to heaven, does his material body got destroyed and vanished using his power and only his spirit ascend?

The gospel comforts and sets my heart at peace.

Powerful and uplifting words. Thank you

There is only one cosmology and the ancient people surely got it all wrong. Why still cling to the superstitious monsense?

Thank you, Your Grace, taking difficult passages and concepts and helping make the Bible understandable for so many.

But please explain re: John 14:2-3

If the Gospel is about this new reality, then surely that includes the method of transformation which is placing one’s faith in Christ. After all, if one holds that He’ll exists, then surely it’s good news to be transformed to part of this new reality via faith and be spared destruction? And it seems this is what is referred to in verse 5 of Romans 1: the transformation of the person via faith.

Thankyou Wright. Its so refreshing to hear about poetry , arts , culture.. to take time to appreciate and rejoice in the beautiful things created by God and man

70AD was judgement day. We are in the New heaven and earth.

Thank you very much 😊.

Seven years after Jesus ascended to heaven, seven years! Seven years later, Paul “met Jesus” on the road to Damascus. He saw blinding light and he heard voices, seven years later.

Doesn't answer the question, 'What happened to the apparently physical Jesus - where bodily did he go?' In any case, the ascension asides are a Biblical add-on. Matthew and John make no mention whatsoever. Mark's is the revisionist PS of chap.16 by a later editor, which naturally raises suspicions. The phrase 'he was taken up into heaven', at Luke 24:51 is a revisionist insert - the original verse simply notes that he departed. In Luke's Acts 1:9 Jesus disappears in a hill-fog (a 'cloud' at the Mount of Olives). When the fog clears he's not there anymore. It is irrational to suppose that 'taken up' means like a space rocket. And the Greek word used can be read figuratively - he went up a level in their esteem. Or it could be read as a Lukan retrospective gloss of fanciful imagination - as to what actually happened to him when he disappeared in the fog. He was there and then he wasn't, that's all we can assume. Like much of scriptures and spiritual writing there is something metaphoric going on. Using a framework of metaphor we are able to begin to apprehend rational and sensible meaning... Our life force comes from above. Jesus is a metaphor for the light. 'Light of the World' (John 8:12). The light comes down from above. That's where it comes from, although bizarrely humans pay scant regard to this source of our existence. When we start to more fully appreciate this physical / cosmic / solar wonder, then metaphorically we will 'see' Jesus (the Light of the World) 'come again' - an allusion to (pan-religious, pan-cultural) more enlightened understanding and mindfulness.

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So true and well said. One God, one creator of all things, one Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord, and ONE kingdom, the kingdom of God, and ONE religion of that kingdom.

Beautifully and clearly put! Thank you.

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You're a bright spot in my dark news cycle.

Thank you. Greetings from New Hampshire

So rich! Thank you.

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Thanks for the lecture Dear Sir, greetings and Blessings N. T. Wright from Türkiye.

I like that you called out the title of "king." Thank you. Makes me think also of Israel wanting one-and God's response (1 Samuel 8). And Pilate's questioning of Jesus affront to Roman authority, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Dr Wright, the fact is that the prediction of the new covenant announced by the prophet Jeremiah resonated like an inspired echo in the ears of the apostles and the Son of Man himself, to such a point that his death was approaching, the blessed death of the Testator that began the new covenant. And the reasons for this change were obvious religious and political corruption, whose center of inspiration were the doctrines of men for the benefit of greed. And what did the Creator want to generate with the new covenant? I would say that a more precise approach to God through the man Jesus Christ, without the burden of the Torah that not even the Jews could execute point by point. Would it be strange to think that Jesus the Anointed wanted to take us to paradise as in the beginning before Adam and Eve fell from their position? Well, it was not exactly like that, the process is first a new covenant that is not the final paradise, and second a final regeneration that will be the final paradise. Thank you very much Dr Wright for your contributions, and allow me some exposition or another.

Thank you Bishop Wright for having a passion for God, pouring your life into understanding God, and pouring what you have learned into all of us who hear you.

Dr. Wright, do you think we can influence God through our prayers? On His purposes and plans? And can He change His mind? There are so many places in the Old Testament where He changed His plans through prayer, what do you think about that ?

This is wonderful. Complex truth expressed so succinctly. Thank you so much.

I love these videos, thank you Bishop Wright & everyone involved!

Indeed! Thank You Tom! Amen.

Although I largely agree, I think Jesus' ascension was required as an obvious visible sign that he was now leaving the disciples just as he had told them earlier before his death that he would (and that they would then need to wait for the promised Spirit). Remember that for the previous 40 days he had been appearing to them, and disappearing. But this was now the time for his final 'disappearance' and so God made it rather dramatic!

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Nowhere, it’s a story!

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This was exactly what I needed. I’m so glad that God spoke through you this morning to me. Thank you and God bless you.

Can't help hearing Daddy Pig when I hear your voice 😂😂😂 Thank you for another great video👍

3. The ascended and enthroned Christ cares for his suffering people as they bear witness to him. We see this in Acts 7 when Stephen becomes the first martyr of the Christian church. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” (Acts 7:55-56) All of this should give us great encouragement! When feeling weak in ourselves, Luke reminds us that the exalted Christ has given us his Spirit, who equips us with the power, boldness, and courage we need to accomplish our mission. This is the great hope of all Christians. For just as Jesus went into heaven, so will all Christians. Those who are dead will rise first; those who are living will be caught up to meet Him in the air, according to Paul, writing to the church at Thessalonica. With this hope in mind, Christians sometimes conclude their meetings with the words, "Come Lord Jesus."

"This may come as a shock, but going to be with Jesus the Messiah after you die isn’t the end of the story." the sh0ck is that s0me0ne has the arr0gance t0 actuaIIy beIieve they kn0w what happens after death

if jesus r0se fr0m the dead what did he actuaIIy sacrifice ? his return 3 days Iater, unscathed, w0uId appear t0 be definitive pr00f it was n0t his Iife if we accept he is an imm0rtaI super being, the aIpha and the 0mega, as he cIaims "dying" f0r three days is n0t particuIarIy impressive, in fact, m0re a trick, easy f0r a "g0d" t0 c0njure this fIy in the 0intment is ign0red by Iumin0us reIigi0us "pr0fess0rs" aIth0ugh dr ashenden said s0mething deIightfuI ab0ut "seIf emptying" { I said yuk, 0bvi0usIy] when I was 7 yrs 0Id I asked this questi0n my understanding 0f the w0rds "sacrificed his Iife" was in reIati0n t0 the reaI sacrifice made by th0se at N0rmandy 44 thats h0w t0 sacrifice y0ur Iife pr0perIy defend a cause t0 the death, with0ut the benefit 0f kn0wing y0u wiII return unharmed and what an eg0 ap0I0gists have g0dspIaining where every0ne eIse gets it wr0ng these channeIs exp0se christianity and its "Iearned" ap0I0gists in reaI time and they d0 steIIa service t0 atheism this gr0wn man beIieves we wiII get new b0dies after we die because his bibIe teIIs him s0 n0 rapture but new b0dies y0ung pe0pIe see this as grandad g0in gaga

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