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.”
44Then He turned toward the woman and said to Simon: “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head.
45You gave me no kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet since the time I came in.
46You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume.
47For this reason, I say to you, her many sins have been forgiven, because she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
48Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49The other recliners began to say within themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
50Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go into peace.”