The 7 words of Christ from the cross: 1) Father forgive them
7 words for 7 days The seven words of Christ from the Cross. 1) Father forgive them because they do not know what they do. We take this sentence from the Gospel of Luke, the gospel of Mercy, so it is normal that the first sentence said by Jesus from the cross is a word of mercy, a word of forgiveness. Let us remember what he had just suffered the previous few hours: The betrayal of his “friend” Judah, the arrest, the accusations, the crowd shouting “Crucify Him”, the scourging, the coronation with thorns, the mocking, the climbing to Calvary carrying the cross, the nails and again the mocking; and he answers “Father forgive them because they do not know what they are doing”. He is not talking to them, he is not trying to explain, he is not trying to convert; he speaks now directly to his Father, the righteous judge as a defending lawyer would do in court to plead for his client whom he knows is guilty. “They do not know what they are doing”. It is true. They thought they...