Matthew 27:38
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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Matthew 27:38. Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
As if to show that they regarded Christ as the worst of the three criminals, they put him between the two thieves, giving him the place of dishonour. Thus was the prophecy fulfilled, "He was numbered with the transgressors." The two malefactors deserved to die, as one of them admitted (Luke 23:40-41); but a greater load of guilt vested upon Christ, for "he bare the sin of many," and, therefore, he was rightly distinguished as the King of sufferers, who could truly ask: - "Was ever grief like mine?"