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The impenitent thief was one of
the two thieves who was crucified alongside Jesus. According to the Gospels, he
taunted Jesus about not saving himself, while the penitent thief asked for
mercy. The impenitent thief is given the apocryphal name Gestas, which
first appears in the Gospel of Nicodemus, while his companion is called Dismas.
Pious folk beliefs later embellished
that Gestas was on the cross to the left of Jesus and Dismas was on the cross
to the right of Jesus. In Jacobus de Voragine's "Golden Legend", the
name of the impenitent thief is given as Gesmas. The impenitent thief is
sometimes referred to as the "bad thief" in contrast to the good
thief.
The apocryphal Arabic Infancy Gospel
refers to Gestas and Dismas as Dumachus and Titus, respectively.
According to tradition, Dumachus was one of a band of robbers who attacked
Saint Joseph and the Holy Family on their Flight into Egypt as recorded in
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Golden Legend.
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