05.03.2015 New Testament: Luke 23.33

To read the Bible in a year, read Luke 23.27–38 on May 3, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

The placement of Jesus between two criminals does not appear to have been coincidental, but planned,

And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left (Luke 23.33). 

Men may have intentionally placed Jesus in the middle, showing that they believed Him to be the epitome of sinners, but God also wanted Jesus in the middle, for in dying for our sins, He died for even the most vile sinner among us!