But I have yet still to hear anybody named Dismas or Gestas. Obviously, what good parent would name their sons after the two thieves crucified with Jesus. Especially Gestas who mocked Jesus.

Within Luke’s Gospel narrative of the Passion of Christ, a mere five verses contain the story of two men who hung to the left and right of Jesus. The verses tell a story of love and hate, of ...

32). Luke’s gospel labels Dismas and his companion (named Gestas, as tradition has it) as “criminals.” Like Jesus’ death, the two mens’ death sentences were designed to crush the spirits ...

For all the significance of the Crucifixion, I’m surprised at the lack of curiosity people have in the two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus. Probably because very little is mentioned ...

Gestas won’t examine what brought him to that place until it’s too late: the time for repentance is not after death. Dismas acknowledges the justice of his sentence and the injustice of Jesus’.

In turn, you rebuked Gestas by saying ... And then there was you, Dismas, when you turned toward Jesus, becoming the first recipient—among many—of coming to understand what God’s love ...

In his final agony on the cross, Jesus promises paradise to Dismas, the “good thief.” Set in the weeks leading up to Christ’s crucifixion, Barry Connolly’s novel, “The Good Thief ...