30. but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.)
31. “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
32. They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, ‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not weep.’
33. For John the Baptist has come not eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
34. The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
35. And wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
36. Now one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he entered into the house of the Pharisee and reclined at the table.
37. And behold, a woman in the town who was a sinner, when she learned that he was dining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of perfumed oil,
38. and standing behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and was wiping them with the hair of her head and was kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfumed oil.
39. Now when the Pharisee who invited him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”
40. And Jesus answered and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he said, “Teacher, say it.”
41. “There were two debtors who owed a certain creditor. One owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty.
42. When they were not able to repay him, he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
43. Simon answered and said, “I suppose that it is the one to whom he forgave more.” And he said to him, “You have judged correctly.”
44. And turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house. You did not give me water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
45. You did not give me a kiss, but from the time I entered, she has not stopped kissing my feet.
46. You did not anoint my head with olive oil, but she anointed my feet with perfumed oil.