Luke 7:41
Then Jesus told him a picture story. He said, “There was a rich man that used to lend money to people. One man borrowed $500 from him, and another man borrowed $50.
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40Jesus said to him, “Simon, I want to tell you something.” Simon said, “All right, teacher, tell me.”
Cross References
Matthew 6:12Please don’t punish us for the bad things that we did, just like we don’t do payback to the people that did bad things to us.
Matthew 18:28But after that, his work-man went away, and he met another man. Before this time, that other man borrowed a little bit of money from the work-man, just 100 dollars. So the work-man grabbed that other man’s neck and said, ‘Give me back that money right now. It’s my money.’
Luke 13:4And you know about the high building in Jerusalem city, at the place called Siloam. It fell down on top of 18 people and killed them. Do you think those people did more bad things than the other people in Jerusalem, and that is the reason why God let them die like that?
Romans 3:23We all went the wrong way, and we did bad things. Nobody is properly good, like God wants us to be.
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 →