23:35. And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided
him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, the
elect of God.

23:36. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him
vinegar,

23:37. And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

23:38. And there was also a superscription written over him in letters
of Greek and Latin and Hebrew THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

23:39. And one of those robbers who were hanged blasphemed him, saying:
If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

23:40. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou
fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation?

23:41. And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds.
But this man hath done no evil.

23:42. And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into
thy kingdom.

23:43. And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be
with me in paradise.

In paradise... That is, in the happy state of rest, joy, and peace
everlasting. Christ was pleased, by a special privilege, to reward the
faith and confession of the penitent thief, with a full discharge of all
his sins, both as to the guilt and punishment; and to introduce him
immediately after death into the happy society of the saints, whose
limbo, that is, the place of their confinement, was now made a paradise
by our Lord's going thither.

23:44. And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all
the earth until the ninth hour.

23:45. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in
the midst.

23:46. And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

23:47. Now, the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying:
Indeed this was a just man.

23:48. And all the multitude of them that were come together to that
sight and saw the things that were done returned, striking their
breasts.

23:49. And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him from
Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things.

23:50. And behold there was a man named Joseph who was a counsellor, a
good and a just man,

23:51. (The same had not consented to their counsel and doings) of
Arimathea, a city of Judea: who also himself looked for the kingdom of
God.

23:52. This man went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.

23:53. And taking him down