Luke 7:41

Jesus replied, “Two people owed some money to a man who earned money by lending it to others. One owed him 500 silver coins, and the other owed him 50 silver coins.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.

In Context

40Jesus said to him, “Simon, there is something I want to tell you (sg).” He replied, “Teacher, what is it?”

42Neither of them was able to pay back what he owed, so the man very kindly said that they did not have to pay back anything. So, which of those two men will love that man more?”

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Cross References

Isaiah 50:1This is also what Yahweh says: “You Israeli children, do not think [RHQ] that I forced your parents to be exiled/taken to Babylonia [MET] like some men send away their wives after giving them a paper on which they state that they were divorcing them! I certainly did not [RHQ] get rid of you like a man who sells his children to get money to pay what he owes. No, the reason that I forced you to be exiled was to punish you because of the sins that you have committed [DOU].

Matthew 6:12Forgive our sins just like we (exc) have forgiven the people who sin against us (exc).

Matthew 18:28Then this official went to another one of the king’s officials who owed him a bit less than a year’s wages. He grabbed him by the throat, started choking him, and said to him, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’

Luke 11:4Forgive us for the wrong things that we have done, because we forgive people for the wrong things that they do to us. Do not let us do wrong things when we are tempted { someone or something tempts us}.’”

Luke 13:4Or, consider the 18 people who died when the tower at Siloam outside Jerusalem fell on them. Do you think that this happened to them because they were more sinful than all the other people who lived in Jerusalem?

Romans 3:23All people have done evil, and all people have failed to accomplish the glorious goals that God set for them.

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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