What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 'If ye are stumbled at what I have said, how will ye bear what I now say?' Not that His ascension itself would stumble them more than His death, but that after recoiling from the mention of the one they would not be in a state of mind to take in the other.