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# Missing: Luke 23:34
The below sentence from Jesus in Luke 23:34 is missing in some ancient manuscripts and it is not clear if this is part of the Gospel and omitted or not part of the Gospel and added.
> **Luke 23:34**: "Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.'" This part of the verse is not found in some early manuscripts.
Misquoting Jesus [p. 191](https://archive.org/details/Prof.BartEhrman-MisquotingJesus/page/n201/mode/2up)
> As it turns out, however, this prayer of Jesus cannot be found in all our manuscripts: it is missing from our earliest Greek witness (a papyrus called P 75 , which dates to about 200 C.E.) and several other highquality witnesses of the fourth and later centuries; at the same time, the prayer can be found in Codex Sinaiticus and a large range of manuscripts, including most of those produced in the Middle Ages. And so the question is, Did a scribe (or a number of scribes) delete the prayer from a manuscript that originally included it? Or did a scribe (or scribes) add it to a manuscript that originally lacked it?
