Luke 7:37 - New Testament in Braid Scots 1904 (William Wye Smith)
37 And see! a wumman oʼ the citie, wha was an ill‐dooer, whan she kent that he was sittin at meat iʼ the Phariseeʼs hoose, she gat her an alabaster cruse oʼ perfume,
“Whilk oʼ thae twa did his faitherʼs wull?” They say till him, “The first ane.” Jesus says to them, “Truly say I tʼye, that the tax‐men and the harlots gang intil the Kingdom oʼ Heeven afore ye!
“But the tax‐man, staunin far yont, fearʼt to lift up sae mickle as his een till Heeven, but strack his breist, cryin, ‘Lord! be mercifuʼ toward me, the sinner!’
Kennin this, that to a just man the Law isna laid doon, but to lawless and disobedient anes, ungodly and sinfuʼ, irreligious and profane, slayers oʼ faithers and slayers oʼ mithers, blude‐shedders,