Luke 7:41
Two debtors, there were, to a certain creditor,—the one, owed five hundred denaries, and, the other, fifty.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
42they not having wherewith to pay, he forgave, both. Which of them, therefore, will love him, more?
Cross References
Isaiah 50:1Thus, saith Yahweh—Where then is the scroll of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or, which of my creditors, is it to whom I have sold you? Lo! for your iniquities, have ye been sold, And for your transgressions, hath your mother been put away.
Matthew 6:12And forgive us our debts, as, we also, have forgiven our debtors;
Matthew 18:28But that servant, going out, found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him, a hundred denaries, and, laying hold of him, he began seizing him by the throat, saying, Pay! if anything thou owest.
Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins, for, even we ourselves, forgive every one indebted to us; And bring us not into temptation.
Luke 13:4Or, those eighteen, upon whom fell the tower in Siloam, and slew them, suppose ye that, they, had become, debtors, beyond all the men who were dwelling in Jerusalem?
Romans 3:23For, all, have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
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 →