The story of the repen­tant crim­i­nal cru­ci­fied on Jesus’ side gives way to var­i­ous inter­pre­ta­tions. The debate is over where the comma should be placed in Jesus’ answer. Since in the ancient Greek text there were no point­ings, we may expect that it is the the­ol­ogy of the trans­la­tors that deter­mine the cor­rect ren­der­ing, or is it? What if we the con­text gives us a clue? (more…)