On Good Friday, Jesus the Son of God
nailed our sins to the cross.
Only a few days earlier, throngs of
people had sung His praises and thrown down palm branches to ease His ride into
Jerusalem. But now, crowds gathered to jeer at Him as He hung between criminals
in the worse kind of torture – crucifixion.
Just to breathe, Jesus had to lift
Himself up, thrusting His weight into the nails that held His hands against the
hard wood while dragging His flesh further into the nails that fastened His
feet.
And yet….
As the people railed against Him, hurling
every kind of insult, and dogs snapped at His feet, and breathing itself became a torture, Jesus used these final moments to pray His last Amen on our behalf:
Luke 23:34 –
a prayer of Jesus
from the King James Version (KJV)
Then said Jesus,
Father,
forgive them;
for they know not
what they do.
From the Book of KJV Prayers - actual prayers from
the King James Version of the Bible
(KJV) collected by Mary Harwell Sayler, ©2019
Luke 23:34 –
a prayer of Jesus
in contemporary
English
Father,
forgive them!
They don’t know
what they’re doing.
From the
Book of Bible Prayers – actual prayers of the Bible collected from a variety of
translations researched on Bible
Gateway then paraphrased into everyday
English by Mary Harwell Sayler, ©2019.
©2021
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