Luke 7:31-43

³¹“To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and to what are they similar?

³²They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we mourned to you, and you did not cry.’

³³Because John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

³⁴The Son of the Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Just look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

³⁵Still, by all her children wisdom is justified.”

³⁶Then one of the Pharisees invited Him to eat with Him, so He entered the Pharisee's house and reclined.

³⁷But then, a woman in the town who was a sinner, when she found out that He was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume,

³⁸and as she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and kept wiping them with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

³⁹Now as the Pharisee who had invited Him observed this, he was saying to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him, including what sort of woman she is—because she is a sinner!”

⁴⁰So Jesus reacted by saying to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he said, “Teacher, say on.”

⁴¹“A certain creditor had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

⁴²And when they had no way to repay, he freely forgave them both. Now tell me, which of them will love him more?”

⁴³So Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one to whom he forgave more.” And He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”