To be fair there is some dispute about the placement of a comma, such as: “I tell you today, you shall be be with me in Paradise.”
The comma placement does change the time factor.
Which only goes to show that Christ should have waited until the publication of the Chicago Manual of Style (which regulates the use of commas in the English language) or the development of cell phones with built-in cameras and live video feed before being born. Then we'd all have certainty about this vital issue.
"I tell you today: You shall be with me in Paradise [after a few millenia in Purgatory]."
"I tell you today - as opposed to informing you yesterday or mentioning it to you tomorrow: You shall be with me in Paradise [in less than 12 parsecs]."
Regards,
I’m glad you mentioned that.
After his resurrection he said:
Jhn 20:17
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
He plainly states that he did not go to paradise.
There's no confusion except to the religion that can't stand the verse as written...
Jesus is speaking to this guy, today...Not yesterday or tomorrow...Jesus didn't know the guy yesterday or last week and tomorrow the guy will be dead...
It would be flat out idiotic to claim that Jesus said, 'I tell you today'...Of course Jesus told him 'today' because today is the day Jesus is speaking...
What a desperate attempt to pervert the scriptures...
Did they have commas in the original text? You learn something new every day.