Sorry; the text does NOT say at all where they were LED. (Elsie)
OK, but other Bible verses do:
(1) So where did He lead the occupants of Paradise?
(2) So where could He have led them?
(3) To what sphere could they have gone?
(4) There are only four places where a human soul could be located:
(a) on the earth, where they could not just wander about willy-nilly without a body, this created earth of embodied soul/spirit humans; (b) Sheol/Hell, the hot, waterless residence of souls (like the 'rich man' of Lk. 16:19) formerly unrepentant in the human sphere;
(c) Paradise, or Abraham's bosom, the comfortable residence of the souls of repentant believers (like the 'beggar' of Lk. 16:20); and
(d) the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2), the residence of The God and His angels, the location of the True Tabernacle (Heb. 8:1-5), where before reconciliation with/by The Father had been effected, none of the souls of his human enemies had access.
(5) Jesus
(a) would not lead the repentant believing saved-under-the-first-covenant souls from Paradise into Sheol/Hell, because he would not go there himself nor would he consign them into punishment already removed;
(b) could not lead them into Paradise, because they were already there;
(c) could not lead them into our earthly sphere without a body, whence the would need to go through this whole temporal experience again and be subjected to a second physical death (Heb. 9:27); and
(d) could lead them into heaven, but only after being restored together with His spirit into a humanoid body, so that as a resurrected human High Priest He could enter into a transaction with The Father to redeem the repentant souls and gain their entrance into the third heaven.
(6) This He did, by
(a) returning to this earthly sphere;
(b)joining with His spirit returned from the hand of the Father (Lk. 23:46) into a glorified (bloodless) human body (as seen by MM, Mk. 16:9, Jn. 20:14);
(c) refusing to be defiled by her touch prior to his bodily ascension (Jn. 20:17);
(d) ascended bodily into the third heaven;
(e) entered into a successful redemption/reconciliation transaction with The Father (prefigured by the earthly temple procedures) (Lev. 4; Jer. 31:34; Heb. 8:8-13, 9:5-28, 10:12-14); and
(f) thus clearing the way for entrance of the sanctified souls from Paradise (Heb. 2:14-17).
(7) Furthermore, having won and been given all authority (exousia) in Heaven and upon earth (Mt. 28:18) through vanquishing the Devil -- the god of this earth -- he saw fit to exercise that authority by completely separating Paradise (and its contents) from the Pit and joining it to the third heaven (2 Cor.12:2,4) so that saved, redeemed, justified, and sanctified humans could be continually spiritually accepted in union with the seated Christ (Eph. 1:6).
(8) And when confessed (1 John 1:9) we have access into the Holiest of The Heaven by the Blood of The Christ (Heb. 10:19-20, as do the souls who had gone to the Paradise, and were led into Heaven by Jesus.
Q. E. D.
Have you studied out that event, Elsie? A thorough perusing and belief in the Word will help you get the right position on this, eh?
Selah ... and thank you.
I just posted the above...