Luke 7:42
and they not having [with which] to give back, he forgave both; which of them then, do you say, will love him more?”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
41“Two debtors were to a certain creditor; one was owing five hundred denarii, and the other fifty;
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:13And the woman says, “And why have you thought thus concerning the people of God? Indeed, the king is speaking this thing as a guilty one, in that the king has not brought back his outcast;
Psalms 49:7A brother ransoms no one at all, || He does not give to God his atonement.
Psalms 103:3Who is forgiving all your iniquities, || Who is healing all your diseases,
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as [by] a thick cloud, || Your transgressions, || And as [by] a cloud, your sins, || Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”
Daniel 9:18Incline, O my God, Your ear, and hear, open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Your Name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before You, but for Your mercies that [are] many.
Matthew 6:12And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
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 →