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Gestas, also spelled Gesmas, is the apocryphal name (first appearing in the Gospel of Nicodemus) given to one of the two thieves who was crucified alongside Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
. According to legend, Gestas taunted Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
 about not saving himself, while Dismas asked for mercy. Dismas was saved, and Gestas was not.

The apocryphal Arabic Infancy Gospel
Arabic Infancy Gospel

The Arabic Infancy Gospel is one of the texts found in the New Testament apocrypha concerning the infancy of Jesus. It may have been compiled as early as the sixth century, and was based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, and Protevangelium of James....
 refers to Gestas and Dismas as Dumachus and Titus, respectively.






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Gestas, also spelled Gesmas, is the apocryphal name (first appearing in the Gospel of Nicodemus) given to one of the two thieves who was crucified alongside Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
. According to legend, Gestas taunted Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
 about not saving himself, while Dismas asked for mercy. Dismas was saved, and Gestas was not.

The apocryphal Arabic Infancy Gospel
Arabic Infancy Gospel

The Arabic Infancy Gospel is one of the texts found in the New Testament apocrypha concerning the infancy of Jesus. It may have been compiled as early as the sixth century, and was based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, and Protevangelium of James....
 refers to Gestas and Dismas as Dumachus and Titus, respectively. According to tradition, Dumachus was one of a band of robbers who attacked Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph

Joseph "of the House of David" is known from the New Testament as the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus and although according to Christian tradition he was not the biological father of Jesus, he acted as his foster-father and as head of the Holy Family....
 and the Holy Family
Holy Family

The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Mary , and St. Joseph....
 on their Flight into Egypt
Flight into Egypt

See: Chronology of JesusThe flight into Egypt is a bible event described in the Gospel of Matthew , in which Saint Joseph fled to Ancient Egypt with his wife Mary and infant son Jesus after a Biblical Magi because they learn that King Herod intends to kill the infants of that area....
, as recorded in Jacobus de Voragine
Jacobus de Voragine

Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine...
's "Golden Legend
Golden Legend

The Golden Legend, Legenda Aurea, or Legenda Sanctorum by Jacobus de Voragine is a collection of fanciful hagiography or lives of the saints, that became a late Middle Ages bestseller....
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See also

  • List of names for the Biblical nameless
    List of names for the Biblical nameless

    This list of names for the Biblically nameless compiles names given in Jewish mythology or Christian mythology for characters who are unnamed in the Bible itself....


  • The Short story "An afternoon on Skull Hill" by Tom Wessex, conjectures that Gestas
    Gestas

    Gestas, also spelled Gesmas, is the apocryphal name given to one of the two thieves who was crucified alongside Jesus. According to legend, Gestas taunted Jesus about not saving himself, while Dismas asked for mercy....
     was Pontius Pilate's illegitimate son, and, the real utterer of the words "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do". *