Now ¹  during the blessing ²  he departed ³  and was taken up into heaven. ⁴ 

biblegateway Luk 24:51

While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

And while He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

And it happened that while he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up into heaven.

biblegateway Luk 24:51

While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.

While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

bibleoremus Luk 24:51

While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

and in the act of blessing he parted from them.

biblegateway Luk 24:51

Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven.

And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

biblegateway Luk 24:51

Now ¹  during the blessing ²  he departed ³  and was taken up into heaven. ⁴ 

¹ tn Grk “And it happened that while.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

² tn Grk “while he blessed them.”

³ tn Grk “he departed from them.”

⁴ tc The reference to the ascension (“and was taken up into heaven”) is lacking in א* D it sy^s, but it is found in Ì⁷⁵ and the rest of the ms tradition. The authenticity of the statement here seems to be presupposed in Acts 1:2, for otherwise it is difficult to account for Luke’s reference to the ascension there. For a helpful discussion, see TCGNT 162-63.

⁴ tn For the translation of ἀνεφέρετο (anefereto) as “was taken up” see BDAG 75 s.v. ἀναφέρω 1.

⁴ sn There is great debate whether this event equals Acts 1:9-11 so that Luke has telescoped something here that he describes in more detail later. The text can be read in this way because the temporal marker in v. 50 is vague.