Luke 23:40 Meaning and Explanation
“But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?”
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What Does Luke 23:40 Mean?
From the third cross comes the chapter's most surprising voice. One condemned man rebukes the other, and his first appeal is not to fairness or pity but to the fear of God — above Rome's judgment seat stands a higher Judge.
Something has dawned on this dying man: God is real, death is near, and the man on the middle cross is not as they are. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10), and here that beginning begins in a thief's final hours. No soul is too far gone, and no hour too late, for wisdom to start.
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What does Luke 23:40 mean?
The other criminal rebukes him: do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence?