The Good Thief
The good thief was a thief of time Jesus mentioned by the Gospel of Luke. His punishment was the same as his sidekick, the bad thief , and Jesus Christ's death on the cross. Tradition assigns the name of St. Dismas. Feast on October 12 in the East and 25 March in the West.
According to the Gospel of Luke , just before Christ's death and while the three characters were already crucified, the bad thief began to insult him. But the good thief took the defense of Jesus, repented of his sins and recognized him as the Savior. The Church has recognized as holy as the Dismas, under the promise of Christ: "Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in paradise" (Lk 23, 40).
"One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him:" Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us. But the other, resuming, said: "You do not even fear God, then you suffered the same punishment! For us, it's justice, we pay our deeds: but this man has done nothing wrong "and he said:" Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. And he said: "Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise. "
- Luke , 23, 39-43
The comma before or after "today"? Nevertheless, some modern scholars say that in the Greek text verse should read as follows: "Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt be with me in Paradise." The Ecumenical Translation of the Bible (TOB 1972) employs two commas: 43 Jesus replied: "Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise. " The story was told by the mystic Catherine Emmerich . This biblical passage is the subject of a parodic allusion in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett: it gives rise to a debate for the less disjointed between Vladimir and Estragon (Waiting for Godot, ed. Midnight, 1997, pp. 13 - 16). In literature
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