Is there any reason to believe that Luke 23:43 is translated incorrectly or interpolated by some writer who copied Luke's Gospel? What is the meaning of the original? Is it that of the Authorized Version, or does it demand that the comma should be placed after "to-day"? The literal word-for-word rendering of Hinds and Noble's Interlinear Greek-English Testament is as follows: "And said to him Jesus verily I say to thee to-day with Me thou shalt be in Paradise," more literally, "the Paradise." Punctuation is the work of men, and human wisdom is fallible. The earlier Greek copies not only have no punctuation, but no division of words. Those who punctuated the Bible, about three centuries ago, punctuated as they believed. This is how Rotherham's very literal emphasized New Testament, in his last edition, based on Wescott & Hort's Greek text, renders: "And He said unto him—verily I say unto thee this day: With Me shalt thou be in Paradise." In his twelfth edition, 1896, he has this note: "It is left for the reader to determine whether the words 'this day' should be joined (A) with the former part of the sentence, or (B) with the latter. In favor of (A) may be urged (1) the fact that semeron, 'this day,' does not always stand first in the clause to which it belongs (see Luke 2:11; 5:26; 22:34; Acts 20:26; 22:3; 24:21; 26:29); (2) that being essentially a demonstrative word, it will bear any reasonable stress which may be laid upon it, whether it be placed before or after the words which it qualifies; (3) that it is far from meaningless if regarded as belonging to the opening words of asservation ('Thou dost ask Me to be remembered then: verily thou art assured now. As on this day of My weakness and shame thou hast faith to ask, I this day have authority to answer;') (4) that the latter part of the verse is thus left free to refer to the very matter of the supplicant's request ('Thou dost ask to be remembered when I come in My kingdom: thou shalt be remembered then, and with distinguished favor: thou shalt be in My kingdom: thou shalt be with Me in the very Paradise of My kingdom, in the garden of the Lord—Isa. 51:3 [Sept. paradeisos]; Eze. 36:35; compare Gen. 2:8 [Sept. paradeisos]; 3:2 [Sept. paradeisos]; Rev. 2:7—in that most central and blessed part of the coming kingdom, of which thou dost believe Me to be the destined king')." This makes clear that so far as the original is concerned the comma may be properly placed after "to-day," thus making it limit the verb "say;" "I say to thee to-day." In further evidence, three days after this, Jesus said to Mary, "Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father," the Father who dwells in Paradise, where are the River and Tree of Life. Compare Rev. 2:7 and 22:1, 2. Then, too, the children of faith enter upon their reward, not at death, but at Christ's coming. Matt. 16:27; 1 Thess. 4:16, 17; Rev. 22:12. The teachings of Christ demand the comma after "to-day," and Greek grammar and usage sanction what truth demands.