Luke 7:36–44

MUCH FORGIVENESS, MUCH LOVE

³⁶Then one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.^{f 37}And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house.^g She brought an alabaster jar of perfume ³⁸and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with the perfume.^h

³⁹When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—she’s a sinner!”ⁱ

⁴⁰Jesus replied to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”

He said, “Say it, teacher.”

⁴¹“A creditor had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii,^Aj and the other fifty. ⁴²Since they could not pay it back,^k he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”

⁴³Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”

“You have judged correctly,” he told him. ⁴⁴Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet,^l but she, with her tears, has washed my feet and wiped them with her hair.