Forgiving Eyes - Michael Card

Surrounded with shouts the cruel accusations

Dragged to the court no hope of salvation

All hope was lost for those who had caught me

Knew what I was, They knew all about me

I thought it seemed strange as we entered in

They stopped a young rabbi to ask His opinion

Caught in the act, their reason for hating

My body could feel the stones that were waiting

My judge a man from Galilee

In His eyes so gentle I could see

A father and a brother and a son

Just as I saw Him

The hope I had lost became born again

I was not hopeless though I’d been lost

Now, I felt I was found when He looked at me

With His forgiving eyes

The crowd gathered round, so angry and violent

But He stood beside me, peaceful and silent

Then with a word

With one question He showed them that

They too were guilty and could not condemn

The next thing I knew He asked me, Where are they

And I looked around the courtyard was empty

The stones scattered round, the warm morning sunlight

He’d made the darkness perfectly light

In this new light now I understood

He would not condemn me though He could

For He would be condemned someday for me

Forgiving eyes