When the time was come that he should be received up. — Literally, When the days of His assumption were being fulfilled. The noun is peculiar to St. Luke, and is derived from the verb used of the Ascension, in Mark 16:19; 1 Timothy 3:16. It can here refer to nothing else, and the passage, as occurring in the midst of a narrative, is remarkable. It is as though St. Luke looked on all that follows as seen in the light of the Ascension. Every word and act was consciously a step forward to that great consummation.
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Luke 9:51
51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,