Luke 23:43-45

Contemporary English Version

⁴³Jesus replied, “I promise that today you will be with me in paradise.”^[a]

The Death of Jesus

(Matthew 27.45-56; Mark 15.33-41; John 19.28-30)

⁴⁴Around noon the sky turned dark and stayed that way until the middle of the afternoon. ⁴⁵^(A) The sun stopped shining, and the curtain in the temple^[b] split down the middle.

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Footnotes

23.43 paradise: In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, this word is used for the Garden of Eden. In New Testament times it was sometimes used for the place where God's people are happy and at rest, as they wait for the final judgment.
23.45 curtain in the temple: There were two curtains in the temple. One was at the entrance, and the other separated the holy place from the most holy place that the Jewish people thought of as God's home on earth. The second curtain is probably the one which is meant.