Luke 7:17-48

¹⁷And this word went out of him into all Judea, and into all the country about.

¹⁸And John’s disciples told him of all these things.

¹⁹And John called twain of his disciples, and sent them to Jesus, and said, Art thou he that is to come, or abide we another?

²⁰And when the men came to him, they said, John Baptist sent us to thee, and said, Art thou he that is to come, or we abide another?

²¹And in that hour he healed many men of their sicknesses, and wounds, and of evil spirits; and he gave sight to many blind men.

²²And Jesus answered, and said to them, Go ye again, and tell ye to John those things that ye have heard and seen; blind men see, crooked men go, mesels be made clean, deaf men hear, dead men rise again, poor men be taken to preaching of the gospel.

²³And he that shall not be caused to stumble in me, is blessed.

²⁴And when the messengers of John were gone forth or had gone away, he began to say of John to the people, What went ye out into desert to see? a reed wagged or waved with the wind?

²⁵But what went ye out to see? a man clothed with soft clothes? Lo! they that be in a precious cloth, and in delights, be in kings’ houses.

²⁶But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

²⁷This is he, of whom it is written, Lo! I send mine angel before thy face, which shall make ready thy way before thee.

²⁸Certainly I say to you, there is no man a more prophet among the children of women, than is John Baptist, or among the children of women, no man is more prophet than John Baptist; but he that is less in the kingdom of heavens, is more than he.

²⁹And all the people hearing, and publicans, that had been baptized with the baptism of John, justified God;

³⁰but the Pharisees and the wise men of the law, that were not baptized of him, despised the counsel of God against themselves.

³¹And the Lord said, Therefore to whom shall I say men of this gener-ation like, and to whom be they like?

³²They be like to children sitting in the chapping, and speaking together, and saying, We have sung to you with pipes, and ye have not danced; we have made mourning or lamentation, and ye have not wept.

³³For John Baptist came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a fiend.

³⁴Man’s Son came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo! a man a devourer or a glutton, and drinking wine, a friend of publicans, and of sinful men.

³⁵And wisdom is justified of all her sons.

³⁶But one of the Pharisees prayed Jesus, that he should eat with him. And he entered into the house of the Pharisee, and sat at the meat.

³⁷And lo! a sinful woman, that was in the city, as she knew, that Jesus sat at the meat in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster box of ointment;

³⁸and she stood behind beside his feet, and began to moist his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed with ointment.

³⁹And the Pharisee seeing, that had called him, said within himself, saying, If this were a prophet, he should know, who and what manner woman it were or it is that toucheth him, for she is a sinful woman.

⁴⁰And Jesus answered, and said to him, Simon, I have something to say to thee. And he said, Master, say thou.

⁴¹And he answered, Two debtors were to one lender; and one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty;

⁴²but when they had not whereof to yield, he forgave freely to both. Who of them then loveth him more?

⁴³Simon answered, and said, I guess, that he to whom he forgave more. And he answered to him, Thou hast deemed rightly.

⁴⁴And he turned to the woman, and said to Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest no water to my feet; but this woman hath moisted my feet with tears, and wiped with her hairs.

⁴⁵Thou hast not given to me a kiss; but this woman, since she entered or since I entered, ceased not to kiss my feet.

⁴⁶Thou anointedest not mine head with oil; but this anointed my feet with ointment.

⁴⁷For which thing I say to thee, many sins be forgiven to her, for she hath loved much; and to whom is less forgiven, he loveth less.

⁴⁸And Jesus said to her, Thy sins be forgiven to thee.