M. E. Dodd, The Prayer Life of Jesus (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923; copyright the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention), ch. IV, “His Prayer for Forgiveness” (Luke 23:34), p. 134

Only God can forgive sins. Man can forgive injuries done to him if he have grace enough; but no man, no matter how good or great, can forgive the sins which another man committed against God. This is as unnatural and imp…