Spike is Best

Every now and again, one gets a flash of insight into the tenderness with which Jesus underwent his passion. This glimmer - just a touch of it changes a person - is not seen anywhere but in the way Jesus takes away your sins and your guilt. His tenderness is so great, so unfathomable, the first thing you realize is how little you have known Jesus.

Throughout his passion, Jesus was not stoical, he did not "tough it out", he did not steel himself, he was not resigned. Rather, the very bowels of his tenderness were opened like a broached cask of new wine.

Try to picture the way he spoke those words of salvation to the Good Thief.