John Trapp on Matthew 27:38

Verse 38. Then were there two theeves] So he was reckoned among the transgressours, Isa. 53. 12. A sinner, not by [illegible: 1 word] only, for he bare the sinne of many (ib.) but by reputation also,Quasi [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] rex [illegible: 1 word]. and therefore crucified in the midst (as the worst of the three, chief of sinners) that we might have place in the midst of heavenly Angels, in those walks of paradise, Zach. 3. 7. The one of those two theeves went railing to hell (his crucifixion being [illegible: 1 word] a typicall hell to him, a trap-dore to eternall torment) the other went repenting forth-right to heaven, living long in a little time, and by his praier making his crosse a Jacobs ladder, whereby. Angels descended to fetch up his soul. It is remarkable, and to our purpose sutable, that Rabus reporteth, that when Leonard Caesar suffered Martyrdom at Rappa, a little town in Bavaria, a certain Priest, that had by the law for some villainous act deserved death, being led forth with him towards the place of execution, cried out often, Ego ne quidem dignus sum, qui tibi in hac poena associer, justo injustus. I am not worthy to suffer with thee, the just with the unjust.