Luke 7:22-44

²²And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached:

²³And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me.

²⁴And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind?

²⁵But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are in costly apparel and live delicately, are in the houses of kings.

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

²⁷This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

²⁸For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet that John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser in the kingdom of God, is greater than he.

²⁹And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John’s baptism.

³⁰But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

³¹And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

³²They are like to children sitting in the marketplace, and speaking one to another, and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.

³³For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say: He hath a devil.

³⁴The Son of man is come eating and drinking: and you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.

³⁵And wisdom is justified by all her children.

³⁶And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went into the house of the Pharisee, and sat down to meat.

³⁷And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment;

³⁸And standing behind at his feet, she began to wash his feet, with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

³⁹And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.

⁴⁰And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. But he said: Master, say it.

⁴¹A certain creditor had two debtors, the one who owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.

⁴²And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of the two loveth him most?

⁴³Simon answering, said: I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. And he said to him: Thou hast judged rightly.

⁴⁴And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this woman? I entered into thy house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she with tears hath washed my feet, and with her hairs hath wiped them.