Chapter XIV.—Of the Harmony Preserved Among All the Evangelists on the Subject
of the Two Robbers Who Were Crucified Along with Him.
51. Matthew continues his narrative in the following terms: “Then were there two robbers
crucified with Him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.”1422 Mark and Luke
give it also in a similar form.1423 Neither does John raise any question of difficulty, although
he has made no mention of those robbers. For he says, “And two other with Him, on either
side one, and Jesus in the midst.”1424 But there would have been a contradiction if John had
spoken of these others as innocent, while the former evangelists called them robbers.
1422 Matt. xxvii. 38.
1423 Mark xv. 27; Luke xxiii. 33.
1424 John xix. 18.
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