Luke 23:35-45

³⁵Meanwhile the people stood looking on. Even the leading men said with a sneer, “He saved others, let him save himself, if he is God's Christ, his chosen one.”

³⁶The soldiers, too, came up in mockery, bringing him common wine,

³⁷and saying as they did so, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”

³⁸Above him were the words — ‘THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.’

³⁹One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. “Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us,” he said.

⁴⁰But the other rebuked him. “Haven't you,” he said, “any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence?

⁴¹And we justly so, for we are only reaping our deserts, but this man has not done anything wrong.

⁴²Jesus,” he went on, “do not forget me when you have come to your kingdom.”

⁴³And Jesus answered, “I tell you, this very day you will be with me in Paradise.”

⁴⁴It was nearly midday, when a darkness came over the whole country, lasting until three in the afternoon,

⁴⁵the sun being eclipsed; and the Temple curtain was torn down the middle.