All the wicked people laughed when they read these words; they shook their heads, and pouted their lips at Jesus, and said, If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Could Jesus have come down?
He could do everything; but he chose to stay to die for sinners.
The wicked people said, If God loved him, he would not leave him to die on the cross.
But his Father let him die to save us.
There was a cross on each side of Jesus, and a thief nailed upon each cross. One of these thieves laughed at Jesus; he said, Why do you not save us, if you are the son of God?
The other thief was sorry for his sins, and he loved Jesus.
The thief who was sorry said to the other thief, We have been naughty, we deserve to be crucified; but Jesus is quite good. Then he spoke to Jesus, and said, Remember me when you come to be king.
And Jesus said, You shall be with me in heaven to-day. So Christ heard the poor thief’s prayer; for Jesus died that he might save all who believed that he was the Son of God.
If you go to heaven you will see that poor thief.