Footnote

a Professor C. Marvin Pate wrote that many scholars believe that when Jesus said “today,” he meant that he would die and be in Paradise on that day, or within 24 hours. Professor Pate added that the problem with this view is that it does not agree with other facts in the Bible. For example, the Bible says that Jesus was in the Grave after he died and that he later went to heaven.​—Matthew 12:40; Acts 2:31; Romans 10:7.