38
And there was also an inscription over him, THIS IS HAMELECH HAYEHUDIM.
39
And one of the POSHA’IM (criminals, YESHAYAH 53:12) having been hanged with him was speaking Chillul Hashem gadfanut against him, saying, Are you not the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach?
40
Save yourself and us. And in reply the other, rebuking him, said, Do you not have yirat Shomayim? For you are under the same gezar din (verdict) of harshaah (condemnation as guilty).
41
And this is a just gezar din against us, for we deserve what we are getting for our ma’asim (deeds). But this one did nothing rah.
42
And he was saying, Yehoshua, remember me when you come into your Malchut.
43
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Omein, I say to you, hayom (today) with me you will be in Gan Eden.
44
It was already the sixth hour [noon] and choshech was over the whole land until the ninth hour. [Amos 8:9]
45
The shemesh being obscured; and the Parochet [between the Kodesh HaKodashim and HaKodesh] in the Beis Hamikdash was torn in two. [Ex 26:31-33]
46
And having cried out with a kol gadol, he said, Abba, BYADCHA AFKID RUCHI (into your hands I commit my ruach TEHILLIM 31:6[5]). And this having said, he breathed out his last.
47
And the centurion who saw the thing that happened was saying, Baruch Hashem, surely this man was a Tzaddik.
48
And when all the hamon (crowd) that had assembled at this spectacle had observed the things that had happened, they went away beating their chests.