have done them. So we probably do need forgiving for what we have done when we may have had some sense we should not have done what we did. Our narcissism even tempts us to try to understand Jesus’s death by analogy with other deaths. Deaths imposed by unjust powers. Deaths resulting from prophetic stands. Deaths that seem meaningless at the time but are made significant by later developments. Deaths that provide some hope against the hopelessness that our own deaths seem to make unavoidable. But