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Did the thieves between whom he was crucified both revile him?
Matthew and Mark: They did. “And they that were crucified with him reviled him” ([Mark xv, 32]; [Matt. xxvii, 44]).
Luke: They did not; but one reviled him. “And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him.... But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?” ([xxiii, 39, 40].)
If these men were crucified with Jesus, as claimed, neither reviled him. Reason rejects the statement that a dying man, suffering unutterable agony, reviled a fellow sufferer.