Luk 23:33 and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.
Luk 23:34 And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.
Reminds me of Jonah yet Christ was obedient even unto death.
Jonah 4:1-11
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. [2] And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD,
was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish:
for I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent You of the evil. [3] Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech You,, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. [4] Then said the LORD, Do you well to be angry? [5] So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, until he might see what would become of the city. [6] And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head,
to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. [7]
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. [8] And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. [9] And God said to Jonah,
Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. [10] Then said the LORD,
you have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not laboured, neither made it grow;
which came up in a night, and perished in a night: [11]
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons
that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
That cannot discern their right hand from their left hand…He asked Jonah “should I not spare?” Earlier Jonah said “for I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent You of the evil. “
Sometimes I think we become hard of heart and calloused like that saying we know God is gracious and merciful and slow to anger and of great kindness but only towards us, at the same time our bitterness, revenge, and anger can’t wait to see what becomes of those who hurt us. Yet here Christ is crying out “forgive them for they know not what they do”
What if Christ on the cross cried out, being angry and wanting revenge, “Was this not my saying Father? That I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent You of the evil.”…do not spare them!
Luk 23:35 And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, 'Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'
Luk 23:36 And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,
They gave Him gall and bitterness to drink …He gave them “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” to drink, Living water He gave unto them instead of the vinegar they gave unto Him.
