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NASB | John 20:17 Jesus *said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Do not hold Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.'" |
Bible Question: In Luke 23:43 Jesus tells a thief on the cross that they would be in Paradise on that day. But in this verse Jesus says he has not ascended to Father yet. Then, isn't Paradise the Heaven? Where was Jesus between the death and the resurrection? |
Bible Answer: Hi, 00123... Our Lord Jesus cried out, "'Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.' Having said this, He breathed His last" (Luke 23:46). I cannot fathom how anyone can hold that "in the Father's hands" is Purgatory, or some kind of multicompartmental Hell. (But such beliefs are held to tenaciously by those holding things they deem that have greater authority than does the Word.) You may read the teaching of Purgatory explicitly in the Roman Catholic Catechism here: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a12.htm As to the "Jewish theologians" so frequently mentioned in this context, one may only find a handful who believe anything that could be stretched into a semblance of Purgatory. If you want something less pre-masticated, I can commend you to the following: http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm Or perhaps even the following: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15058.html In Him, Doc |