Luke 7:41
“Once two people were in debt to a money-lender. One owed five hundred denarii, the other only fifty.
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40Jesus spoke up and said, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, Teacher,” he responded.
42Neither of them could repay him, so he forgave the debts. Which one will love him the most?”
Cross References
Isaiah 50:1This is what the Lord says: Where's your mother's divorce certificate I gave her when I sent her away? Which of my creditors did I sell you to? Now look! You were sold because of your sins, and your mother was sent away because of your wrongdoing.
Matthew 6:12Forgive our sins, just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.
Matthew 18:28But when that same servant went out he found one of his fellow-servants who owed him just a hundred denarii. He grabbed him by the neck and choked him, saying, ‘Pay me back what you owe me!’
Luke 11:4Forgive us our sins, just as we forgive everyone who sins against us. Keep us from temptation.’”
Luke 13:4What about those eighteen people that were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were the worst people in the whole of Jerusalem?
Romans 3:23We have all sinned, and we fall far short of God's glorious ideal.
Matthew Henry on Luke 7:37-50
Christ in the House of the Pharisee. 36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now… Read the whole commentary →