When Jesus was nailed to the cross, He didn’t curse the people hurting Him.
He didn’t fight back.
He didn’t call for revenge.
Instead, He prayed:
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
(Luke 23:34)
That one sentence shows us His true mission.
Jesus’ real enemy was never “people.”
People can be cruel… but people can also be forgiven.
The real enemy was the thing inside the world that ruins us:
🔹Sin (the evil we do)
🔹Death (the ending we cannot escape)
🔹Spiri... moreWhen Jesus was nailed to the cross, He didn’t curse the people hurting Him.
He didn’t fight back.
He didn’t call for revenge.
Instead, He prayed:
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
(Luke 23:34)
That one sentence shows us His true mission.
Jesus’ real enemy was never “people.”
People can be cruel… but people can also be forgiven.
The real enemy was the thing inside the world that ruins us:
🔹Sin (the evil we do)
🔹Death (the ending we cannot escape)
🔹Spiritual blindness (when people can’t see the truth)
That is why Jesus sometimes stayed quiet after His arrest.
When people questioned Him and accused Him, many of them didn’t want answers.
They already decided they wanted Him gone.
They were focused on:
their anger,
their pride,
their power,
their fear.
But Jesus was focused on something bigger:
Not winning an argument.
Not proving Himself.
Not destroying the people in front of Him.
He came to destroy the darkness behind it all.
The Cross was not Jesus losing.
It was Jesus choosing to save.
Because He didn’t come to destroy His enemies…
He came to destroy what was destroying humanity.
✠ Sir John Scivoletti ✠
✠ Turco Joan of Arc Priory ✠
✠✠Act and God will Act (Actus et Deus Act)✠✠
