Luke 23:43

Context
23:43 And Jesus¹ said to him, “I tell you the truth,² today³ you will be with me in paradise.”⁴

Luke 23:46

Context
23:46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!”⁵ And after he said this he breathed his last.

[23:43] ¹tn Grk “he.”

[23:43] ²tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[23:43] ³sn 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.

[23:43] ⁴sn 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.

[23:46] ⁵sn A quotation from Ps 31:5. It is a psalm of trust. The righteous, innocent sufferer trusts in God. Luke does not have the cry of pain from Ps 22:1 (cf. Matt 27:46; Mark 15:34), but notes Jesus’ trust instead.