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There is a convention that unnamed persons in scripture are often left unnamed so that we may then freely impute ourselves into the role or position of that individual in the story. That being so, the name of the "bad thief" is: (fill in your own name).

Then, realizing that the result of such an attitude and behaviour is loosing one's last best chance at salvation, one may choose to go the way of the other guy.

Tradition has named the repentant: "Dismas" and the unrepentant: "Gestas" but is not scriptural. In Matthew's Gospel, 27:44, both berate Jesus. In John's Gospel, 19:18 nothing is recorded coming from them. Only in Luke's Gospel, 23:39-43, is this version of the story, but neither are actually named; we are free to imagine ourselves in either role.

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