THE ATHEIST'S COMPLAINT:
In Matthew 27:44, we read that both robbers reviled Jesus, but in Luke 23:41-43, only one robber reviled Jesus, while the other believed. Is there a contradiction?

RESPONSE:
In Matthew 21:28-32, Jesus spoke a parable of a man with two sons. He came to both sons, asking them to go work in his vineyard. The first answered his father, "...’I will not’, but afterward he regretted it and went." The second answered his father, "...’I go sir’, but he did not go." Why bring this up? Both had vocalized an answer to their father, and both changed their minds.

Matthew clearly tells us that both robbers reviled Jesus. They did. Luke tells us that one believed in Jesus, and rebuked the other for his reviling. In the hours spent on a cross next to the Lord, this man was persuaded to die in faith rather than a reviler. He changed his mind, turning from the wicked reviling that he had participated with to a determined faith in the Son of God.

There is no contradiction.

This article is a response to Skeptic's Annotated Bible

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