But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “For I will go down into the grave mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
before I go and do not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
“I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself to be a man.