Why didn't Jesus save my friend?

Answer 1

The suggestion here is that your "friends" suffered some sort of demise. That OR you are questioning why your friends were not "saved" in the Christian sense (i.e. born again, redeemed, etc.). The answers will be given in the order suggested above.

If your friends died, regardless that you and/or others prayed for their lives to be spared, sincere regards, but no one can know the mind or purpose of God. Scripture teaches that all things have a reason, a purpose. That we do not know what the reason or purpose is means only that we do not know. There could be any number of eventualities that were necessitated by the deaths of loved ones. While this might seem a callous or heartless approach, it is neither. It is simple acceptance of something that most often no one can change.

If your friends did not realize Christian salvation, it is simply because they did not accept it. The Bible teaches that all who come are accepted.