23:41. And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man hath done no evil.
23:42. And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.
23:43. And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in paradise.
In paradise... That is, in the happy state of rest, joy, and peace everlasting. Christ was pleased, by a special privilege, to reward the faith and confession of the penitent thief, with a full discharge of all his sins, both as to the guilt and punishment; and to introduce him immediately after death into the happy society of the saints, whose limbo, that is, the place of their confinement, was now made a paradise by our Lord's going thither.
23:44. And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
23:45. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
23:46. And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.
23:47. Now, the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying: Indeed this was a just man.
23:48. And all the multitude of them that were come together to that sight and saw the things that were done returned, striking their breasts.
23:49. And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him from Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things.