Jesus was taken up visibly into heaven, and the angels promised he will come back in the same way. The passage does not reveal the date, and Jesus says times and seasons belong to the Father alone.

John 20 presents the resurrection as a reported event with physical evidence and eyewitness testimony, and it calls readers who were not there to believe and have life in Jesus' name.

1 Peter 2:12 calls Christians to live morally upright lives in the world, so that those who oppose them may be silenced by the evidence of God’s transforming power in their lives.