The Thief on the Cross Luke 23:43 (NKJV): "And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” " It appears that Jesus told the thief on the cross who was repentant that he would meet Jesus, today, in Paradise. Is that really what that verse is telling us? Again, as in the previous example, we must study this carefully. We could look at punctuation, but this commentary will not do that. Why? Because there was no modern punctuation in The Bible's original writings. So playing around with punctuation can only lead others to not trust The Bible translations. After all, if we can put a comma in a verse we don't like, what gives us the right to tell another that they cannot do the same thing in return to us? Our best choice is to come to an honest, logical conclusion. In Luke 20:37 (NKJV), Jesus says this: "But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the...
