When Jesus for his murtherers prays,
Can God reject the dying prayer?
Thou must forgive our ransom’d race:
Thou dost our world of ruffians spare:
The pardon bought by blood divine,
Hath surely pass’d the seals of heaven;
Father, thou art in Jesus mine,
And all the world’s with me forgiven.
When Jesus for His murderers prays
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”—[Luke] xxiii. 34. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 302.
Publishing: Public Domain