John Trapp on Matthew 27:44

Verse 44. The theeves also] Both of them railed at first, till one of them was converted by a miracle (for it was one of those seven miracles wherewith Christ would honour the ignominy of his crosse.) Till then either they both reviled our Saviour, or the better of them seemed, at least by his silence, for a season to consent to the other. In whose example we see, that every fool hath a bolt, to shoot at afflicted godlinesse. Every curre is ready to fall upon the dog that he seeth worried: and every passenger to pull a branch from a tree that is felled. But there is no small cruelty in composing comedies out of the tragedyes of the Church: and so, to draw blood from that back which is yet blue from the [illegible: 1 word]. 13. hand of the Almighty. God threatneth Edom for but looking upon Jacobs affliction in the day of their calamity.