τὸ δʼ αὐτὸ κ.τ.λ. They would naturally catch at the thought that the deliverer failed to give deliverance. St Luke alone relates that ‘one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him … the other answering rebuked him.’ It is by no means impossible that the penitent robber may have seen and heard Jesus in Galilee.

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Old Testament