Sinclair B. Ferguson
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He noticed that the crowd who had gathered seemed focused on the man who was hanging on the cross beside him.
They were mocking him.
What must have struck him was that the chief priests were there too.
That was strange.
Wasn't one of the most sacred days in the year about to begin?
What were they doing there?
And why were they mocking him?
And at first he joined in the shouts.
He was in agony and he was angry.
But then he heard an echo of his own words from the other side of the man beside him.
Are you not the Christ?
Then save yourself and us.
But the words were bitter.
They were words of anger and hatred.
But the man hanging on the center cross beside him was without anger or bitterness.
Father, forgive them, he had prayed.
They don't know what they are doing.
And something happened in the man's heart.
He shouted over to the criminal on the other side.
We deserve this, but he doesn't.