The answer
This miracle first comes in the gospel of St Mark.
It says at the end of it: "After the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God." (Mark 16:19)
It also comes in the Book of Acts, in more than one place. For example, after the Lord's last meeting with His disciples, when He said to them: " you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me... " and " Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight " And following this, two angels said to them: " This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so
come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven."(Acts 1:8,9 & 11)
It also comes in the vision of St. Stephen the deacon, when he was being stoned: "Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 'Look he said, 'I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." (Acts 7:55- 56)
There are many references to be found in the Book of Hebrews too. For example it says of Christ that: "After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high," (Heb. 1:3).
And when St Paul was speaking about the Lord as the high priest, he said: "The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in heaven" (Acts 8:1).
And at the end of this epistle he said: " looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb. 12:2)
The prophecy for this comes in the Psalms, where David was speaking in the Holy Spirit:
"The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool. " (Ps. 110:1)
The Lord's sitting at the right hand of God is something which I have dealt with elsewhere, in the first volume of this series.
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Thrice-Blessed Pope Shenouda III of Blessed Memory