Quotes

[Demetrius Hyrona]

I thought it would be neat to have people post different quotes they like, so here are 2 I found that are short and simple.

"In case you failed to notice, in case you failed to see, this is my heart, bleeding before you, this is me down on my knees." -Jewel Kiltcher

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." -Michael Sinz (for you scriptors )

-Demetrius Hy'rona-

[Lamer]

"Death is the Great Equalizer"

-Angry Insults from a Dying Criminal (23:39)

"One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: 'Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!' " (23:39)

Hanging on crosses at Jesus' right and left hand are two criminals, Greek kakourgos, " 'criminal, evil-doer,' one who commits gross misdeeds and serious crimes."[1] Other Gospels call them robbers, Greek lestes, "robber, highwayman, bandit"[2] (Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27). Though they could have been common thieves, they also might have been the kinds of highwaymen that swooped down on lonely groups of travelers from Jerusalem to Jericho, stripped them of their possessions, and left them for dead, as in the case of the victim in the Good Samaritan (10:25-37). The same Greek word is used to describe them. Bandits like these two were the terror of travelers. Those who were able, traveled in larger parties.

One of these highwaymen, dying on a cross on one side of Jesus, now takes up the cat-calling begun by the soldiers, "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!" It was probably much like the cruel teasing of inmates that goes on in prisons today. It represents a general jab at authority of any kind. A pulling of everyone down to one's own level. The thief is making fun of Jesus' inability to do anything despite the exalted title of "Messiah" that has been used concerning him. Where is this talk of "Messiah" now? he sneers. You're dying just like us. Death is the great equalizer.

The verb used to describe the thief's taunts is Greek blasphemeo, "Primarily, 'to demean through speech,' an especially sensitive matter in an honor-shame oriented society; 'to speak in a disrespectful way that demeans, denigrates, maligns. Slander, revile, defame.' "[3]