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If you were an ordinary murderer or robber, you were not likely to be crucified. The use of the word robbers for those crucified with Jesus is a translation mistake. The Greek word used in Mark is the same word used by Josephus for Jewish resistance fighters; it is a pejorative term, with connotations like the modern terrorist.
The Meaning of Jesus
Marcus J. Borg, N. T. Wright
It was a pain-shaped bloodstain.
The Tooth Fairy
Graham Joyce
Now the train was greyflying past instants of trees and quick spaces of field and a motionless sky that sped darkening away in the opposite direction.
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
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