Luke 7:38-50

³⁸and placed herself behind Jesus, near his feet, weeping. Then she began to make his feet wet with her tears, and she dried them with the hair of her head, repeatedly kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume.

³⁹When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “Had this man been ‘the prophet,’ he would have known who, and what sort of woman, this is who is touching him, and that she is an outcast.”

⁴⁰But, addressing him, Jesus said, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Pray do so, teacher,” Simon answered; and Jesus began,

⁴¹“There were two people who were in debt to a moneylender; one owed five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

⁴²As they were unable to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them, do you think, will love him the more?”

⁴³“I suppose,” answered Simon, “it will be the man to whom he forgave the greater debt.” “You are right,” said Jesus,

⁴⁴and then, turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house — you gave me no water for my feet, but she has made my feet wet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

⁴⁵You did not give me one kiss, but she, from the moment I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

⁴⁶You did not anoint even my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume.

⁴⁷So I tell you, her great love shows that her sins, many as they are, have been pardoned. One who is pardoned little loves little.”

⁴⁸Then he said to the woman, “Your sins have been pardoned.”

⁴⁹The other guests began to say to one another, “Who is this man who even pardons sins?”

⁵⁰But Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has delivered you; go, and peace be with you.”