knows he will not ascend to heaven on his death.

John 14:2-3 "I go to prepare a place for you ...I will come again and will take you to myself that where I am you may be also." 

Acts 2:29-34 "Patriarch David both died and was buried...David did not ascend into the heavens." 

John 6:40 "For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." 

Dan. 12:2 "Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." 

1 Cor. 15: 22-23 "Just as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will come to life again, but each one in proper order; Christ the firstfruits, and then at his coming, those who belong to him."