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KJV Holy Bible Large Print Center-Column Reference Bible, 53,000 Cross References, Red Letter, Comfort Print. Save: $12.00 (30%) Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. 35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him , saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
(34) Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. --Again, the silence is broken, not by the cry of anguish or sigh of passionate complaint, but by words of tenderest pity and intercession. It is well, however, that we should remember who were the primary direct objects of that prayer.
I. Words of Sovereignty – Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. Jesus spoke sovereign words. Consider: . An Unnatural Request – We must keep in mind that Jesus was fully God and yet He was fully man. He felt the same emotions we feel. He felt the same pain we feel.
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King James Version. 34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. 35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
According to Eusebius of Caesarea, a second-century Christian writer named Hegesippus recorded the last words of James as, “I beseech you, Lord God Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing,” an obvious parallel to Jesus’ prayer in Luke (Ecclesiastical History 2.23.16).
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They know not what they do - It was done through ignorance, Acts 3:17. Paul says that, "had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory," 1 Corinthians 2:8. Ignorance does not excuse altogether a crime if the ignorance be willful, but it diminishes its guilt.
