Explore "Luke 23: 34" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: "Father, forgive," the Saviour said, / "They know not what they do:"
His heart was moved when thus he pray'd / For me, my friends, and you.
II: He saw that as the Jews abused / And crucified his flesh, / So he by us would be refused, / And crucified afresh.
III: Through love of sin we long were prone / To act as Satan bid; / But now with grief and shame we own / We knew not what we did.
IV: We knew not the desert of sin, / Nor whom we thus defied; / Nor where our guilty souls had been / If Jesus had not died.
V: We knew not what a law we broke, / How holy, just, and pure!
Nor what a God we durst provoke, / But thought ourselves secure.
VI: But Jesus all our guilt foresaw, / And shed his precious blood, / To satisfy the holy law, / And make our peace with God.
VII: My sin, dear Saviour, made thee bleed, / Yet didst thou pray for me!
I knew not what I did, indeed, / When ignorant of thee.