Luke 23:40 — Community Reflections

LUKE 23:40 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?”

But the other criminal rebuked him. Don't you fear God, he said, since you are under the same sentence — but the other criminal rebuked him: the unexpected rebuke from a fellow condemned man. Don't you fear God: the first criminal's mockery is addressed as the failure of appropriate fear before God.

Church Fathers on Luke 23:40

Observe a second time the device of the devil turned against himself. For in letters of three different characters he published the accusation of Jesus, that in truth it might not escape one of the passers by, that He was crucified because He made Himself King. For it is said, In Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, by which it was signified, that the most powerful of the nations, (as the Romans,) the wisest, (as the Greeks,) those who most worshipped God, (as the Jewish nation,) must…
Theophylact · 11th century

And rightly is the title placed above the cross, because Christ’s kingdom is not of the human body, but of the power of God. I read the title of the King of the Jews, when I read, My kingdom is not of this world. I read the cause of Christ written above His head, when I read, And the Word was God. For the head of Christ is God.
Ambrose · 4th century

Now one of the thieves uttered the same revilings as the Jews, but the other tried to check his words, while he confessed his own guilt, adding, We indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds.
Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

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