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WHAT JESUS PRAYED FOR

Philip Yancey, in an article for Christianity Today, wrote:

"When Jesus prayed to the one who could save him from death, he did not get that salvation; he got instead the salvation of the world." ["Jesus’ Unanswered Prayers," Christianity Today (Feb. 1998)]

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