Luke 7:43

And Simon answering said, “I suppose that to whom he forgave the more”; and He said to him, “You judged correctly.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

In Context

42and they not having [with which] to give back, he forgave both; which of them then, do you say, will love him more?”

44And having turned to the woman, He said to Simon, “See this woman? I entered into your house; you did not give water for My feet, but this woman wet My feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head;

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Cross References

Mark 12:34And Jesus, having seen him that he answered with understanding, said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God”; and no one dared question Him anymore.

Luke 10:38And it came to pass, in their going on, that He entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, received Him into her house,

2 Corinthians 5:14for the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged thus: that if one died for all, then the whole died,

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 →

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