Luke 7:24-50 ▼

24 And the messengers of John having gone away, He began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What have you gone forth into the wilderness to look on? A reed shaken by the wind?

25 But what have you gone forth to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, they in splendid clothing, and living in luxury, are in the houses of kings!

26 But what have you gone forth to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet:

27 this is he concerning whom it has been written: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You;

28 for I say to you, there is not a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Immerser; but the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.”

29 And all the people having heard, and the tax collectors, declared God righteous, having been immersed with the immersion of John,

30 but the Pharisees and the lawyers put away the counsel of God for themselves, having not been immersed by him.

31 And the LORD said, “To what, then, will I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?

32 They are like to children, to those sitting in a marketplace, and calling to one another, and saying, We piped to you, and you did not dance, we mourned to you, and you did not weep!

33 For John the Immerser came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon;

34 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, Behold, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners;

35 and the wisdom was justified from all her children.”

36 And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking Him that He might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee He reclined,

37 and behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that He reclines in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,

38 and having stood behind, beside His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing His feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

39 And the Pharisee who called Him, having seen, spoke within himself, saying, “This One, if He were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind [is] the woman who touches Him, that she is a sinner.”

40 And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you”; and he says, “Teacher, say on.”

41 “Two debtors were to a certain creditor; one was owing five hundred denarii, and the other fifty;

42 and they not having [with which] to give back, he forgave both; which of them then, do you say, will love him more?”

43 And Simon answering said, “I suppose that to whom he forgave the more”; and He said to him, “You judged correctly.”

44 And having turned to the woman, He said to Simon, “See this woman? I entered into your house; you did not give water for My feet, but this woman wet My feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head;

45 you did not give a kiss to Me, but this woman, from what [time] I came in, did not cease kissing My feet;

46 you did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman anointed My feet with oil;

47 therefore I say to you, her many sins have been forgiven, because she loved much; but to whom is forgiven little, loves little.”

48 And He said to her, “Your sins have been forgiven”;

49 and those dining with Him began to say within themselves, “Who is this, who also forgives sins?”

50 And He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you, be going on to peace.”