SUNDAY LESSON, 3/6/22
JESUS’ LAST WORDS: “FATHER FORGIVE THEM”
Luke 23:32-38
Last Sunday we walked with Jesus during His LAST HOURS on earth from the Garden of Gethsemane to the cross. Starting this Sunday leading up to Easter, we will be studying JESUS’ LAST WORDS while hanging on the cross beginning with “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34).
The last words spoken from one who is dying often reveals much about what is on the heart of that individual. You may have been at the bed side of a loved one who died and marveled at their last words of peace, love or faith. It is not different with the last words of Jesus. He spoke seven phrases in all as recorded in the gospels, and those words reveal what was most important to the Son of God. I am excited as to what God is going to reveal to me in this study, and I hope you are, too.
LUKE 23:32-35
32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[a] And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
36 The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar 37 and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”
38 There was a written notice above him, which read: this is the king of the jews.
