Christian tradition holds that Gestas was on the cross to the left of Jesus and
The “Penitent Thief”, also known as the Thief on the Cross or the Good Thief, is the unnamed character mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. He was crucified alongside Jesus and asked Jesus to remember him, when he came into his kingdom, unlike his companion the Impenitent Thief.
4) The repentant thief was saved by Jesus
Jesus answered the repentant thief with the most hopeful words possible: “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). A thief who woke up in the morning on his way to hell had his eternal destiny changed with a simple plea to the Savior.
One thief died mocking Jesus and railing at his own circumstances, defiant to the end. The other thief, in his agonizing hours hanging beside Jesus, realized the error of his ways, trusted in God, repented, and was promised by Jesus: “Truly, I say to you, today you'll be with Me in paradise” (Luke 23:43).
The figure to the left of Saint Peter holds a key, a traditional symbol of this Saint. His execution was ordered by the Roman Emperor Nero, who blamed the city's Christians for a terrible fire that had ravaged Rome. Peter requested to be crucified upside down, as he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as Christ.
According to Matthew 27:3–10, Judas felt remorse after seeing Jesus condemned to death, and he returned the silver and hanged himself.
According to tradition, St. Peter was crucified upside down because he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus Christ.
In the Gospel of Luke, we are told that during Our Blessed Lord's crucifixion, there were two other men suffering the same death, one to either side of Him. The one to Christ's right has become known as the “Good Thief,” while the one to His left is referred to as the “Unrepentant Thief.”
In Matthew and Mark, Jesus cries out to God. In Luke, he forgives his killers, reassures the penitent thief, and commends his spirit to the Father.
At death his Spirit went to the Father in heaven, and then returned to be clothed in the resurrection body, in which he appeared to the disciples over a period of 40 days before the ascension. The statement in John 20:17 tells us that the ascension of the resurrected Christ had not yet happened.
However, Bond makes the case Jesus died around Passover, between A.D. 29 and 34. Considering Jesus' varying chronology, he was 33 to 40 years old at his time of death.
Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.
The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi (Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. "of the same womb") are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew.
Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.” John 13:31–38.
The book describes what happens to Marcus, a Roman soldier, after he nails Jesus to the cross... Marcus has seen Jesus at the Sermon in the Mount and at many miracles of Jesus...
It is considered "one of the most dynamic prints ever made". The subject is Jesus Christ on the cross, flanked by the two thieves who were crucified with him, and the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, weeping and supported by the Evangelist. Roman soldiers on horseback, along with grieving citizens, surround the crosses.
To speed death, executioners would often break the legs of their victims to give no chance of using their thigh muscles as support. It was probably unnecessary, as their strength would not have lasted more than a few minutes even if they were unharmed.
Apparently there is only one extant account (in Josephus) of one person surviving crucifixion out of the hundreds reported in ancient literature. (And that case was only when excellent medical care was immediately provided by the Romans, and even so, only one out of three who were so rescued actually survived!)
Mark 15: 21
They compelled a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross; it was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
It shows us the one who carried our sins. It's important that Jesus' cross was in the middle. The cross is at the center of God's work of salvation. We can't avoid the cross; it forces the question “What will you do with Jesus?”
Gregory I the Great. In Adams' oratorio, which has a libretto by acclaimed avant-garde director Peter Sellars, the other Mary of the title is Mary Magdalene, Jesus' most steadfast female disciple, who was present at the Crucifixion and later beheld the risen Christ.
Voragine writes that Simon was sawed in half. Christian Ethiopians believe that while Simon did die in this manner, he was killed in Samaria, not Persia. According to this record, two jealous bishops sawed the apostle in half when he preached against idolatry.
Peter took on a leadership role in the early church, after Jesus' ascension into heaven. The biblical books 1 Peter and 2 Peter are attributed to Peter. Tradition says that Peter went to Rome, where he was martyred and crucified sometime between 64-68 CE. The Catholic Church believes Peter to be the first pope.
John (The Beloved) (son of Zebedee / brother of James) : Natural Death The only apostle who did not meet a martyrs death. Banished by Roman Emperor Domitian to Isle of Patmos where penned Revelation, the last book in the Bible.