But now that the baby is dead, why should I fast? I can’t bring him back to life. Someday I will go to him, but he cannot come back to me.”
All of his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he could not be comforted. He said, “I will be sad about my son until the day I die.” So Jacob cried for his son Joseph.
David said, “My time to die is near. Be a good and strong leader.
Soon I will leave; I will not return from the land of darkness and gloom,
I know you will bring me down to death, to the place where all living people must go.
Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”