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Did Jesus Pray for His Abusers?
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According to the Gospel of Luke, while hanging on the cross, Jesus prayed for the people participating in his execution.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34)
Or did he?
This prayer—which appears only in the Third Gospel—is absent from some important Greek manuscripts of Luke. Anyone who has studied the New Testament at a serious level understands that our English…