:Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."
:Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."
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Is this a corruption of the original, perhaps promoted by [[liberal]]s without regard to its authenticity? This does not appear in any other Gospel, and the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus '''''did''''' know what they were doing. This quotation is a favorite of liberals, although it does not appear in the earliest and best manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke. It should not appear in a [[conservative]] Bible, because in point of fact Jesus might never had said it at all.
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Is this a corruption of the original, perhaps promoted by [[liberal]]s without regard to its authenticity? This does not appear in any other Gospel, and the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus '''''did''''' know what they were doing.<ref>It can be counter-argued, though, that although the persecutors knew what actions they were taking and why they believed them to be proper, they may have not realized the ramifications of such, such as their role in fulfilling Biblical prophecy.</ref> This quotation is a favorite of liberals, although it does not appear in the earliest and best manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke. It should not appear in a [[conservative]] Bible, because in point of fact Jesus might never had said it at all.