⁶ About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

¹² We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate^(A) those who through faith and patience^(B) inherit what has been promised.^(C)

⁴ As long as it is day,^(A) we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

²¹ (All the Athenians^(A) and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

⁴⁰ But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? ⁴¹ We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”^(A)

⁴² Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.^[a]”^(B)

⁴³ Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”^(C)

⁴⁹ “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom:^(A) She and her daughters were arrogant,^(B) overfed and unconcerned;^(C) they did not help the poor and needy.^(D)

¹⁰ Whatever^(A) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,^(B) for in the realm of the dead,^(C) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.^(D)