Luke Chapter 23
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23:40. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation?
23:41. And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man hath done no evil.
23:42. And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.
23:43. And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in paradise.
In paradise.... That is, in the happy state of rest, joy, and peace everlasting. Christ was pleased, by a special privilege, to reward the faith and confession of the penitent thief, with a full discharge of all his sins, both as to the guilt and punishment; and to introduce him immediately after death into the happy society of the saints, whose limbo, that is, the place of their confinement, was now made a paradise by our Lord’s going thither.
23:44. And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
23:45. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
23:46. And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.
23:47. Now, the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying: Indeed this was a just man.
23:48. And all the multitude of them that were come together to that sight and saw the things that were done returned, striking their breasts.
23:49. And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him from Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things.
23:50. And behold there was a man named Joseph who was a counsellor, a good and a just man,
23:51. (The same had not consented to their counsel and doings) of Arimathea, a city of Judea: who also himself looked for the kingdom of God.
23:52. This man went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.
23:53. And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.
23:54. And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on.
Parasceve.... That is, the eve, or day of preparation for the sabbath.
23:55. And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the sepulchre and how his body was laid.
23:56. And returning, they prepared spices and ointments: and on the sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.