Having therefore done many and dreadful things against Jesus that night, they gave Him up to Pilate the procurator at the dawn of the preparation, that he might crucify Him; and for this purpose they all came together.
2After a trial, therefore, Pilate the procurator ordered Him to be nailed to the cross, along with the two robbers.
3And they were nailed up along with Jesus, Gestas on the left, and Demas on the right.
4And he that was on the left began to cry out, saying to Jesus: See how many evil deeds I have done in the earth; and if I had known that thou wast the king, I should have cut off thee also.
5And why dost thou call thyself Son of God, and canst not help thyself in necessity? how canst thou afford it to another one praying for help?
6If thou art the Christ, come down from the cross, that I may believe in thee.
7But now I see thee perishing along with me, not like a man, but like a wild beast.
8And many other things he began to say against Jesus, blaspheming and gnashing his teeth upon Him.
9For the robber was taken alive in the snare of the devil.
10But the robber on the right hand, whose name was Demas, seeing the Godlike grace of Jesus, thus cried out: I know Thee, Jesus Christ, that Thou art the Son of God.
11I see Thee, Christ, adored by myriads of myriads of angels.
12Pardon me my sins which I have done.
13Do not in my trial make the stars come against me, or the moon, when Thou shalt judge all the world; because in the night I have accomplished my wicked purposes.
14Do not urge the sun, which is now darkened on account of Thee, to tell the evils of my heart, for no gift can I give Thee for the remission of my sins.
15Already death is coming upon me because of my sins; but Thine is the propitiation.
16Deliver me, O Lord of all, from Thy fearful judgment.
17Do not give the enemy power to swallow me up, and to become heir of my soul, as of that of him who is hanging on the left; for I see how the devil joyfully takes his soul, and his body disappears.
18Do not even order me to go away into the portion of the Jews; for I see Moses and the patriarchs in great weeping, and the devil rejoicing over them.
19Before, then, O Lord, my spirit departs, order my sins to be washed away, and remember me the sinner in Thy kingdom, when upon the great most lofty throne thou shalt judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
20For Thou hast prepared great punishment for Thy world on account of Thyself.
21And the robber having thus spoken, Jesus says to him: Amen, amen; I say to thee, Demas, that to-day thou shalt be with me in paradise.
22And the sons of the kingdom, the children of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
23And thou alone shalt dwell in paradise until my second appearing, when I am to judge those who do not confess my name.
24And He said to the robber: Go away, and tell the cherubim and the powers, that turn the flaming sword, that guard paradise from the time that Adam, the first created, was in paradise, and sinned, and kept not my commandments, and I cast him out thence.
25And none of the first shall see paradise until I am to come the second time to judge living and dead.
26And He wrote thus: Jesus Christ the Son of God, who have come down from the heights of the heavens, who have come forth out of the bosom of the invisible Father without being separated from Him, and who have come down into the world to be made flesh, and to be nailed to a cross, in order that I might save Adam, whom I fashioned — to my archangelic powers, the gatekeepers of paradise, to the officers of my Father: I will and order that he who has been crucified along with me should go in, should receive remission of sins through me; and that he, having put on an incorruptible body, should go in to paradise, and dwell where no one has ever been able to dwell.
27And, behold, after He had said this, Jesus gave up the ghost, on the day of the preparation, at the ninth hour.
28And there was darkness over all the earth; and from a great earthquake that happened, the sanctuary fell down, and the wing of the temple.