Did Jesus Pray for His Abusers?
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 versions are translated from Greek, and that the Greek text used by translators is itself edited from the thousands of Greek manuscripts that preserve portions of the New Testament. But all of these…
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