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Luke 7:37

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Just then a woman, who was an outcast in the town, having ascertained that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of perfume,

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Which of the two sons did as his father wished?" " The second," they said. "I tell you," added Jesus, "that tax-gatherers and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God before you.

Meanwhile the tax-gatherer stood at a distance, not venturing even 'to raise his eyes to Heaven'; but he kept striking his breast and saying 'O God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus."

I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent."

And now that the Son of Man has come, eating and drinking, you are saying 'Here is a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax- gatherers and outcasts.'

One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to dine with him, so Jesus went to his house and took his place at table.

This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair.

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

We know that God never listens to bad men, but, when a man is god-fearing and does God's will, God listens to him.

But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

How true the saying is, and worthy of the fullest acceptance, that 'Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners'! And there is no greater sinner than I!

by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good men, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

If 'a good man is saved only with difficulty, what will become of the godless and the sinful?'




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