Luke 23:33 (WEB)
When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
Fathers and councils · 14
Augustine of Hippo
“Mark and Luke give it also in a similar form.” — editor's note: Mark xv. 27; Luke xxiii. 33.
Read the whole comment“…they say of the malefactors who were crucified with our Lord; for both he who got pardon, got it after he was crucified, and the other did not get it at all?” — editor's note: Luke xxiii. 33–43.
Read the whole comment“These two, as we have learned in the narrative of the other evangelists, were thieves with whom He was crucified, and between whom He was fixed, whereof the prophecy sent before had declared, “And He was numbered among the transgressors.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 38; Mark xv. 27; and Luke xxiii. 33.
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Tertullian
“Moreover two malefactors are crucified around Him, in order that He might be reckoned amongst the transgressors.” — editor's note: Comp. Luke xxiii. 33 with Isa. liii. 12.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Athanasius of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
When mankind became corrupted, then Christ manifested His own body, that where corruption has been seen, there might spring up incorruption. Wherefore He is crucified in the place of Calvary; which place the Jewish…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
Or else, without the gate were the places where the heads of condemned criminals were cut off, and they received the name of Calvary, that is, beheaded. Thus for the salvation of all men the innocent is crucified…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
The only-begotten Son of God did not Himself in His own nature in which He is God suffer the things which belong to the body, but rather in His earthly nature. For of one and the same Son both may be affirmed,…
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
But if, on the contrary, after His intercourse with men, He suddenly disappeared, flying away to avoid death, He might be likened by man to a phantom. And just as if any one wished to exhibit some incombustible…
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Now our Saviour came to accomplish not His own death, but that of man, for He experienced not death who is Life. Therefore not by His own death did He put off the body, but He endured that which was inflicted by men.…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Because also by a tree death bad entered, it must needs be that by a tree it should be abolished, and that the Lord passing unconquered through the pains of a tree should subdue the pleasures which flow from a tree.
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
But the figure of the cross from one centre of contact branching out into four separate terminations, signifies the power and providence of Him who hung upon it extending every where.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
For not without reason did He choose this kind of death, in order that He might be the master of breadth and length, and heighth and depth. For breadth lies in that cross piece of wood which is fastened from above.…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
Two thieves also they crucified on the two sides, that He might be a partaker of their reproach; as it follows, And the thieves one on his right hand, the other on his left. But it did not so turn out. For of them…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
But the two robbers crucified with Christ signify those who under the faith of Christ undergo either the pains of martyrdom, or the rules of a still stricter continence. But they do this for eternal glory, who…
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together with
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.15.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.15.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.15.
Quotes
Luke 23:33 takes up the words of 2 Chronicles 3:17 (10 words in common).
Luke 23:33 takes up the words of Zechariah 4:3 (10 words in common).
