Ground Zero message of forgiveness

Written by David Fletcher 16 Sep 2016
Ground Zero message of forgiveness

As the US marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 last Sunday, a YouTube video was released of a Bible recovered at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks. The Bible had a particular message to convey. Joel Meyerowitz spent nine months at Ground Zero taking photos in the aftermath of 9/11. A firefighter working there gave him pages from a Bible welded to a piece of steel. Meyerowitz marvelled that the Bible was preserved intact, and even more that it was turned to a passage from Matthew 5:38-39 (KJV) which says, ‘Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.’ Meyerowitz said, ‘Of all the pages in the Bible that it could be opened at, that was remarkable.’

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