CONCLUSION

With this narrative of the ascension we naturally bring to a close our summary account of Our Lord’s life. Our study, however rapid, of the facts narrated in the canonical gospels proves to evidence that Jesus was not simply an extraordinary man, a wonderful teacher and a powerful worker of miracles: He was also “the Word made flesh,” the very Son of God sent by the eternal Father to lay down His life for the redemption of the world. On the one hand, the circumstances of His birth, the miracles He performed, the title of “Son of Man” He so constantly assumed, His distinct claim to Jewish kingship and Messiahship, together with His perfectly sinless life, prove Him to be the long-expected Messias; on the other hand, His repeated affirmations of equality with the Almighty, His own positive and solemn declaration before the Sanhedrim that He was the “Son of God” in the strictest sense of the word, and, indeed, His general attitude during His public life, demand that every candid inquirer into His life and character believe Him to be the Son of God, “that believing, he may have life in His name.”