True Complete Forgiveness

What is true and complete forgiveness?

There are people that say, "I forgave him. But he is going to have to answer to God!"

It seems they are looking forward to judgment by God of what they forgave the person of. 

Jesus gave us the supreme example of true and complete forgiveness.

He went through Roman scourging "the halfway death,"  beaten with whips that had sharp, rugged pieces of metal, wire, glass, and jagged fragments of bone that tore the flesh off of his body. While Jewish lashes could not exceed forty. Roman scourging had no limit. Blood loss during a scourging was severe. Sometimes the victim lost consciousness from extreme blood loss. This explains why it was overwhelming for Jesus to carry His cross.y

Slapped, spit on, beard plucked, a crown of thorns, and yet from the cross where He hung, with nails in His hands and feet, Jesus uttered the words, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."

Jesus cleared their accounts with complete forgiveness of what they had done to Him. 

Stephen, full of faith and power, doing wonders and miracles among the people, had some rise up against him, stirring up false accusers. They brought him to the council.When false witnesses testified against him, the high priest asked him, Are these things so? Stephen then testified of the Jewish people from the time of Abraham,  concluding by saying they were now the betrayers and murderers of the Just One:...

When they heard Stephen's testimony, they were cut to the heart. Finally, they cast him out of the city and stoned him. The Bible says, "And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."

Stephen was requesting from God complete forgiveness of those that were murdering him, to clear their account of  their sin against him.

And when he had said this, he fell asleep. (He died).

Complete forgiveness. 

(Acts 6-7).