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Updated: June 4, 2025
The ass was his. "Now for the father and son!" "Right, Barabbas." The dice fell. Barabbas rejoiced. Dismas was winner. "A third time for the woman!" "Right, Barabbas." He threw the dice; they fell on his cloak. "What is that? The dice have no marks! Dismas, stop this joke! You've changed the dice." When he took them up in his hand the black marks were there again all right.
She rode on an ass, and seen closer, carried a child in her arms. A man, tired out, limped beside her, leading the ass. "Dismas, there's someone," whispered Barabbas, grasping the handle of his weapon. "Come, let's hide behind the stone until they come up." "You'll fall on those defenceless folk from an ambush?" "And you're going to help me," said Barabbas coolly.
"Barabbas, my comrade," he said at last, "it is your bad angel that speaks." "Why don't you praise him, Dismas? Why don't you shout for joy? My message has redeemed you. You think because you've attacked, slain, and plundered unsuspecting travellers that everlasting hell must be your portion. My strong message does away with hell. Do you see that?"
And Jesus said to him: "There is mercy for all who repent! To-day, Dismas, you and I will be together at the Heavenly Father's home." "He is from heaven!" was heard in the crowd. "He is from heaven!" One of the Roman soldiers threw his spear away, and exclaimed in immense excitement: "Verily, He is the Son of God!" "The Son of God! The Son of God! Set Him free!
They drew a second and a third time. As before the dice had no marks when they fell. "What does it mean, Dismas? The dice are blind." "I think it's you who are blind, Barabbas," laughed Dismas. "Here, drink these drops, and then lie down and sleep." The strong man soon rolled on to the sand beside the ass, and snored loudly.
They were the lean, brown Barabbas and the pale, sunken-eyed Dismas. The former gazed around him with his hawk's eyes, clenched his hands, and tried to burst his fetters. The other was quite broken down, and his unkempt hair hung about him. The disciples had come as far as the tower of the town walls, but had withdrawn in terror, all but John, James, and Peter.
Barabbas pressed his face against the stone, and said with comfortable conviction; "We've only the life we have; there's no other." "If it was as you say," returned Dismas, "we must make this one life great " "If there's no life to come," said Barabbas, "we must live this one out. That is nature, and to deny it folly. No, I will enjoy my life. Enjoyment is a duty."
After they had waded through the sand and clambered over the rocks for hours, a golden band of light shone in the east. The bushes and trees of the oasis of Descheme stood out against it. Here Dismas left the wanderers to their safe road, in order to return to the cave. When he turned back with good wishes for the rest of their journey, he was met by a look from the child's shining eyes.
They were commonly called Dismas and Gesmas, and as I forget their real names I shall distinguish them by these terms, calling the good one Dismas, and the wicked one Gesmas.
Even the Rabbis and Pharisees preached a campaign to clear the rocks and sandy flats of the dangerous and destructive hordes by which they were infested. The famous band of the chiefs, Barabbas and Dismas so it was said were not the worst.
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