“Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” Jesus told His disciples.

“Wait,” Peter interrupted. “Do You really mean that we are to go back to Jerusalem and preach the Gospel to those men that murdered You?”

“Yes,” Jesus told him. “Go hunt up that man that spat in my face. Tell him that he may have a seat in My Kingdom yet. And, go find that man who made that cruel crown of thorns and placed it on My brow, and tell him I will have a crown ready for him when he comes into My Kingdom, and there will be no thorns in it. Hunt up that man that took a reed and brought it down over the cruel thorns, driving them into My brow. Tell him I will put a scepter in his hand, and he shall rule over the nations of the earth, if he will accept salvation. Search for the man that drove the spear into My side, and tell him there is a nearer way to My heart than that. Tell him I forgive him freely, and that he can be saved if he will accept salvation as a gift.”

* D. L. Moody, founder of The Moody Bible Institute, Moody Publishers, and the Moody Church in Chicago, was a global evangelist who explained Jesus Christ to over one hundred million people during his lifetime. This excerpt taken from The Life of Dwight L. Moody, by William R. Moody, in 1900.