“But the other criminal rebuked him. ‘Don’t you fear God,’ he said, ‘since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.’” Luke 23:40-41 (NIV)   The crowd had gathered to watch three men die. Above the noise and the jeers, three crosses stood against the sky, and on the center cross hung Jesus, beaten, condemned, and bearing the weight of a punishment He did not deserve. On one side, a criminal j...