Luke 7:36-50

One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to come and eat with him. Jesus went to the Pharisee's house and sat down to eat the meal. A woman who was a sinner in that town found out that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee's house. She went there, carrying an alabaster jar of perfume. She kneeled beside Jesus and with her tears wet his feet, and dried them with her hair. She kissed his feet, and then she poured the perfume over them. When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this he said to himself, “If this man was really a prophet he would know who this woman was who's touching him, and what kind of person she was—that she's a sinner!” Jesus spoke up and said, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, Teacher,” he responded. “Once two people were in debt to a money-lender. One owed five hundred denarii, the other only fifty. Neither of them could repay him, so he forgave the debts. Which one will love him the most?” “The one he forgave the most, I would think,” Simon answered. “You're absolutely right,” said Jesus. Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “You see this woman? When I came into your house, you didn't give me water to wash my feet. But she has washed my feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair. You didn't give me a kiss, but since I came in she hasn't stopped kissing my feet. You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she poured perfume over my feet. So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—that's why she loves so much. But whoever is forgiven little, only loves a little.” Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins have been forgiven.” Those who were sitting eating with him began talking among themselves, saying, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” But Jesus told the woman, “Your trust has saved you, go in peace.”