When the latter saw that he had been betrayed, he began to rage in his chains like a wild animal.
"What would you have brother ?" said Dismas to Barabbas, who had often scorned him so bitterly.

"Am I not a prisoner, too?
Haven't you always preached that right lay with the stronger?
So then the Romans are right this time.

Once you betrayed me and forced me to join the plundering Bedouins, most excellent Barabbas, and now it's my turn.
I've betrayed you to the arm of Rome.

And we'll probably be impaled!" Then, as if that were a real delight, he brought his hand down cheerfully on his companion's shoulder so that his chains rattled.
"Yes, my dearest brother, they will impale us!" They were brought in gangs to Jerusalem, where they lay in prison for many long months awaiting death.

On account of his self-surrender, Dismas had been granted his wish for solitary confinement.