The next story is a study in contrasts. There was a sinful woman on one hand and a scornful Pharisee on the other. Only Luke tells this story. We do not know from which of the two people he gleaned this incident. The name Simon is common in the New Testament; we can pick out nine of them, two of whom were apostles. The scene is set in Capernaum. No group of men was more consistently hostile to Christ than the Pharisees. Luke mentions them twenty-eight
Luke 7:36–50