As a matter of fact, a few hours later, when He was hanging on the cross, He prayed for the unbelievers who were mocking and rejecting Him ""Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." Luke 23:24
That statement is not true to the Word of God.
Christ did not pray forgiveness for those wicked there, His enemies.
For
the only ones who have forgiveness of sins are those chosen, elect of God;
they are the only ones who can be forgiven!
Ephesians 1:3-9
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of
His will, To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom
we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; Wherein
He hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself:
Read Psalm 69:19-28 to understand the request of the Saviour's heart to the Father regarding those there; His enemies:
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become a snare before them:
and that which should have been for their welfare,
let it become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened,
that they see not;
and make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them,
and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Let their habitation be desolate;
and let none dwell in their tents.
For they persecute Him whom thou hast smitten;
and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity:
and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and not be written with the righteous.
Only the elect Christ died for have forgiveness of sins!
They are the ones Christ prayed to the Father to forgive them;
they are the ones who pierced Him! (Rev. 1:7)
TGBTG!
