So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
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Bede
AD 735
Observe that in proportion as Mark began his history later, so he makes it reach in writing to more distant times, for he began from the commencement of the preaching of the Gospel by John, and he reaches in his narrative those times in which the Apostles sowed the same word of the Gospel throughout the world.