forgiveness means that people should always forgive even the unrepentant, as an undeserved gift of love and grace. The suggestion that Jesus forgave his unrepentant killers is, in my view, a mistake. Jesus did not forgive those who were putting him to death, but prayed that God would not hold their sin against them. In other words, what he said does not amount to forgiveness of unrepentant people. Rather, it is Jesus’s prayer, asking God to forgive those who had wronged him. For although his killers