In Heavenly Places

Brooklyn Museum - The Ascension - James Tissot

Psalm 97:9 For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

 

Acts 1:11  Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

 

Ephesians 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

 

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The devil tempts Jesus

Brooklyn Museum - Jesus Carried up to a Pinnacle of the Temple (Jésus porté sur le pinacle du Temple) - James Tissot - overall

Psalm 91:11 (KJV) For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

 

Luke 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:

11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

 

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Whose Goings Out Are of Old

Brooklyn Museum - Saint Joseph Seeks a Lodging in Bethlehem (Saint Joseph cherche un gîte à Bethléem) - James Tissot - overall

Psalm 90:2  Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

 

Micah 5: 2  But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

 

John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 

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