34. But because the Son of Man goes around eating and drinking, you say, “Jesus eats and drinks too much! He is even a friend of tax collectors and sinners.”
35. Yet Wisdom is shown to be right by what its followers do.
36. A Pharisee invited Jesus to have dinner with him. So Jesus went to the Pharisee's home and got ready to eat.
37. When a sinful woman in that town found out that Jesus was there, she bought an expensive bottle of perfume.
38. Then she came and stood behind Jesus. She cried and started washing his feet with her tears and drying them with her hair. The woman kissed his feet and poured the perfume on them.
39. The Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this and said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him! He would know that she is a sinner.”
40. Jesus said to the Pharisee, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”“Teacher, what is it?” Simon replied.
41. Jesus told him, “Two people were in debt to a moneylender. One of them owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed him fifty.
42. Since neither of them could pay him back, the moneylender said that they didn't have to pay him anything. Which one of them will like him more?”
43. Simon answered, “I suppose it would be the one who had owed more and didn't have to pay it back.”“You are right,” Jesus said.
44. He turned towards the woman and said to Simon, “Have you noticed this woman? When I came into your home, you didn't give me any water so I could wash my feet. But she has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.