³⁹ Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting^[a] him, “You are the Messiah,^[b] aren’t you? Save yourself…and us!”

⁴⁰ But the other criminal rebuked him, “Aren’t you afraid of God, since you are suffering the same penalty? ⁴¹ We have been condemned justly, because we are getting what we deserve for what we have done, but this man has done nothing wrong.”