Sinclair Ferguson
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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.
He's done nothing wrong.
Somehow it felt as though he'd been struggling in his pain to solve a puzzle.
And now the pieces were beginning to come together.
This man who had somehow saved others.
He surely must be Jesus of Nazareth.
Most people in Jerusalem seemed to know what he had done.
Could that notice on his cross be true?
Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.