Impenitent thief

Impenitent thief
"Gestas" redirects here. For the French commune, see Gestas, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Dismas the Good Thief is on the left with an angel, Christ is in the middle, while Gestas is on the right with a devil

The impenitent thief was one of the two thieves who was crucified alongside Jesus. According to the Gospels, he taunted Jesus about not saving himself, while the penitent thief asked for mercy. The impenitent thief is given the apocryphal name Gestas, which first appears in the Gospel of Nicodemus, while his companion is called Dismas. Gestas was on the cross to the left of Jesus and Dismas was on the cross to the right of Jesus. In Jacobus de Voragine's "Golden Legend" the name of the impenitent thief is given as Gesmas.

The apocryphal Arabic Infancy Gospel refers to Gestas and Dismas as Dumachus and Titus, respectively. According to tradition, Dumachus was one of a band of robbers who attacked Saint Joseph and the Holy Family on their Flight into Egypt as recorded in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Golden Legend.[1]

See also

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

References

  1. ^ The Golden Legend.

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