Some commentators have said that Paradise was a place of holding the spirits of the righteous dead, until the time that Jesus died on the cross, --- and it said in Matthew 27: 51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 a