Genesis 37:35

37:35 All his sons and daughters stood by ¹  him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” ²  So Joseph’s ³  father wept for him.

Job 30:23

30:23 I know that you are bringing ⁴  me to death,

to the meeting place for all the living.

Luke 23:43

23:43 And Jesus ⁵  said to him, “I tell you the truth, ⁶  today ⁷  you will be with me in paradise.” ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “arose, stood”; which here suggests that they stood by him in his time of grief.

² tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.

³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The imperfect verb would be a progressive imperfect, it is future, but it is also already underway.

⁵ tn Grk “he.”

⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

⁷ sn Jesus gives more than the criminal asked for, because the blessing will come today, not in the future. He will be among the righteous. See the note on today in 2:11.

⁸ sn In the NT, paradise is mentioned three times. Here it refers to the abode of the righteous dead. In Rev 2:7 it refers to the restoration of Edenic paradise predicted in Isa 51:3 and Ezek 36:35. In 2 Cor 12:4 it probably refers to the “third heaven” (2 Cor 12:2) as the place where God dwells.