[Hootowl]

Move the comma from, “Truly I say, today you will be with me in paradise,” to “Truly I say today, you will be with me in paradise.” Makes a big difference.

[Elsie]

In actual Greek texts from the era when Koine Greek was used as a day-to-day language, Greek was written with no punctuation*.

The words ran together completely, with no spacing or markup.

 Accents, breathing marks, spaces, and other punctuation are added at a much later time, making texts easier to read.

 

 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Koine_Greek/2

 

 

[verga]

Move the comma from, “Truly I say, today you will be with me in paradise,” to “Truly I say today, you will be with me in paradise.” Makes a big difference.

Thank you for point that out. I have been hit over the head with that half a dozen times by various anti-Catholics.

[Cvengr]

The translation is phrased “Truly I say, or Truly, Truly I say to emphasize the veracity of the following statement. Today is not implied by the word or phrase, but came in the following statement.

Today is a descriptor of the time of the event, not the time the phrase was made.