Luke 7:42

and they not having [wherewith] to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

In Context

41'Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty;

43And Simon answering said, 'I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;' and he said to him, 'Rightly thou didst judge.'

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:13And the woman saith, 'And why hast thou thought thus concerning the people of God? yea, the king is speaking this thing as a guilty one, in that the king hath not brought back his outcast;

Psalms 49:7A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

Psalms 103:3Who is forgiving all thine iniquities, Who is healing all thy diseases,

Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as [by] a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as [by] a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.

Daniel 9:18'Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that [are] many.

Matthew 6:12'And forgive us our debts, as also we 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 →

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