Acts 1:11

Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal'This same Jesus... shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.' He went up in a cloud (1:9), and He comes in the clouds. This is His coming for His church: 'the Lord himself shall descend from heaven... Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 4:16-17). He promised it Himself: 'I will come again, and receive you unto myself' (John 14:3). The One who comes is not someone different. He is the same Jesus who went up: the same name, the same Person. Titus 2:13 calls this hope 'the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.'

JewishJudaism does not accept the ascension or return of Jesus. It still awaits the Messiah's coming.

CatholicChrist will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, as the Creed confesses.

ProtestantThe personal, bodily and visible return of Christ: the blessed hope.

OrthodoxThe ascended Lord will return in the same glorified body.

DispensationalPre-tribulation teachers read 'in like manner' (in the clouds) with 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Christ coming for His church in the air. Others link it to Zechariah 14:4 and His return to the Mount of Olives.

AcademicThe 'two men in white' parallel the empty-tomb scene (Luke 24:4), and the cloud recalls Daniel 7:13. Luke is the only writer to narrate the ascension at length (Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11).