You would have Jesus saying a cruel thing to the thief if you change where the comma is. The meaning of the word paradise is obvious. It means Garden, the Garden of Eden. That's where the River of Life is. I also remind you that Jesus was a Jew, using words the way other Jews used them. We are not free to impose a "Gentile-version" of what the word means.I doubt it because that day is a supposition based on no other evidence than a comma... And that Jesus Himself said after His resurrection that He had no yet ascended to His Father. And the location of Paradise should not be ascertained according to what the Jews think, but what the Bible tells us... And revelation informs us that the Paradise of God is where the river of Life flows, and that River flows from the throne.
Jesus ascended to the Father later probably on that Sunday, after his meeting with Mary Magdalene. Later he told Thomas to touch him. That's when the ascension happened. Later he disappeared in a cloud, but that was not the actual ascension.