Luke 7:31-43

³¹What comparison am I to make of the men of this generation? what are they like?

³²They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.

³³For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

³⁴The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

³⁵But wisdom is judged to be right by all her children.

³⁶And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table.

³⁷And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,

³⁸And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.

³⁹Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.

⁴⁰And Jesus, answering, said, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on.

⁴¹And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty.

⁴²When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?

⁴³Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right.