Theophylact of Ohrid

The devil, wishing to create and instill a bad opinion of the Lord, arranges for two robbers to be crucified with Him. But see how he lost one of them, and how what the devil plotted against the Lord served to His greater glory. For no one ever sought the crosses of the robbers; on the contrary, the whole world longed in expectation for the Cross of the Lord. And from this it is clearly evident that the Lord is not a lawbreaker like the robbers, but the pioneer of all righteousness.

Commentary on Luke ↗

Bede

And two other criminals were also led away with him, to be put to death. So that what was said might be fulfilled: And he was numbered with the wicked. But he was numbered with the wicked in death, so that he might justify the wicked in the resurrection, who, being in the form of God, was made man for the sake of men, to give men the power to become children of God (John 1).

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

First, therefore, regarding the dishonor of the company, he says: And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put to death; two others, namely, who were malefactors, so that from the iniquity of those put to death with Christ they might pretend that Christ suffered as a reprobate; but the Lord preordained this to happen, according to that passage of Isaiah fifty-three: "He was reckoned among the wicked"; both on account of the example of humility, by reason of which it is said in the Psalm: "But I am a worm and not a …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 23 ↗