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The Penitent Thief, also known as the Good Thief, Wise Thief, Grateful Thief, or Thief on the Cross, is one of two unnamed thieves in Luke's account of the crucifixion of Jesus in the New Testament. The Gospel of Luke describes him asking Jesus to "remember him" when Jesus comes into his kingdom .
In the version of the Gospel of Luke, however, one taunts Jesus about not saving himself and them, and the other (known as the penitent thief) asks for mercy. [1] [2] [3] In apocryphal writings, the impenitent thief is given the name Gestas, which first appears in the Gospel of Nicodemus, while his companion is called Dismas. Christian ...
An opposing position here is that the penitent thief was dying under the older Mosaic law which did not require baptism (cf. Mikveh) and that before Christ's death he had authority and did forgive many without any of the salvation requirements found after his death, burial and Resurrection found in the rest of the New Testament. [46]
According to Luke, one of the thieves reviles Jesus, while the other declares Jesus innocent and begs that he might be remembered when Jesus comes to his kingdom (see Penitent thief). John records that Mary, his mother, and two other women stand by the cross as does a disciple, described as the one whom Jesus loved. Jesus commits his mother to ...
Paul the Apostle generally depicts death as sleep awaiting the resurrection of a glorified body (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18), [2] and (in 2 Corinthians 5) longs to be absent from the body that he may be present to the Lord, evidently understanding death to be the entrance into his reward at an unspecified time (cf. Philippians 1:21–30). [3] [4]
A penitent thief returned a ceramic baby Jesus to a Colorado fire station with a chicken-scratch note that asked for forgiveness for the “dumb mistake.” ...
In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to observations. The guard reportedly failed to check on Moore for an hour and seven minutes. Jail or Agency: Rolling Plains Detention Center; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 4/26/2016 ...
Pia’s story echoes that of the penitent thief who, in Christian belief, was crucified with Christ. [5] He repents and makes a similarly modest request to Christ to be remembered by him in Heaven, thus acquiring eternal salvation after his violent death. [5]