But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
“I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, act like a man,