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Luke 7:32-41 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.

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