Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 44
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44: το δ αυτο και οι λησται οι συσταυρωθεντες αυτω ωνειδιζον αυτω
44: The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same
in his teeth.
44: And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with
him reproached him with.
The thieves also. The robbers, or highwaymen. Luke says Lk 23:39 that one of them said it, and that the other reproved him and was penitent. The account in Luke may, however, easily be reconciled with that in Matthew, by supposing that, at first, both of them reviled Jesus, and that it is of this fact that Matthew speaks. Afterwards one of them relented, and became penitent - perhaps from witnessing the patient sufferings of Jesus. It is of this particularly that Luke speaks. Or it may be, that what is true of one of the malefactors, is by Matthew attributed to both. The evangelists, when for the sake of brevity they avoid particularizing, often attribute to many what is said or done by single persons, meaning no more than that it was done by some one or more of them, without specifying the one. Compare Mk 7:17, with Mt 15:15; Mk 5:31, with Lk 8:45; Lk 9:13, with Jn 6:8, Jn 6:9.
Cast the same in his teeth. This is a most unhappy translation. It means in the original, simply, they upbraided him, or reproached him in the same manner.
