I disagree that Jesus only ascended once (I have made posts regarding this).
On His Resurrection Day (ON "Firstfruit" Lev23:10-12), when He said to Mary Magdalene, "I ASCEND..." (and TOLD her to GO and "SAY UNTO" them this), I believe He
did exactly that, THAT VERY DAY (ON "Firstfruit," thus fulfilling Firstfruit
Lev23:10-12); and then
later that same evening, rather late, came to them and "stood in the midst of them," and at that point said to them "Handle Me and see..."
Luke 24:39.
It was some
"40 DAYS" later that He
"VISIBLY" ascended,
in Acts 1, which is what the "two men stood by them in white apparel" said regarding the manner of His RETURN
to the earth, "...this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into Heaven, SHALL
SO COME
IN LIKE MANNER as ye have
SEEN Him going [/traveling] into Heaven." (that is, "VISIBLY"... He shall
"SO" RETURN
to the earth);
No one "
saw" Jesus do His [
"40-DAYS EARLIER"] active
"I ASCEND" ON FIRSTFRUIT (His Resurrection Day); it was only
"TOLD" to MM (when He "appeared
FIRST to MM"-
Mark 16:9) and SHE was instructed
BY JESUS' WORD to
"SAY UNTO" the others-
John 20:17 (but note what Jesus had said
to them later when He came and "stood in the midst of them,"
see how He addressed them at that point, here in Mark 16:
14[10] -
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/mark/16-14.htm "... [He] UPBRAIDED them with their UNBELIEF and HARDNESS OF HEART, because
they BELIEVED NOT them which had seen Him after He was risen"--Mary Magdalene
being among those, per what we're told
in v.10 of her, where it says of her [
prior to Jesus Himself coming in their midst, way later that evening],
"And she went and told them..."). This pattern is consistent... as I've explained elsewhere...