Luke 7:43 “Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.” And He said to him, “You have rightly judged.”    Again we must be careful to understand what Jesus is saying, and what He isn’t. Jesus isn’t teaching that it is alright to love Him less on the basis of our…

Luke 7:42 “And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?”    To be sure the creditor could have had legal proceedings against either or both of his debtors. The sums they owed were not so small. The point here…

Luke 7:41 “There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.”    Ancient monetary values can never be calculated with complete exactness. But, a close approximation is surely possible. The Roman denarius was worth about a day’s wages in that time. So for our purpose here…

Luke 7:40 ” And Jesus answered and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” So he said, “Teacher, say it.”    Notice that Luke says Jesus answered and said. This was in direct response to Simon’s thoughts. The fact is that though Simon might have wanted Jesus to think something different about…

Luke 7:39 “Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”    It is interesting here that the Pharisee believes that Jesus should…

Luke 7:38 “and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.”    Of course to us today the washing of feet is an activity that…

Luke 7:37 “And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil,”    Several things are not clear here. In Matthew and Mark the Pharisee is referred to as Simon the leper. However, it…

Luke 7:36 ” Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat.”    This is just a great irony. Evidently either this Pharisee had not heard the forgoing discourse of Christ, or he thought himself different from the rest. In any case,…

Luke 7:35 “But wisdom is justified by all her children.”     It’s a lot of fun sometimes to take sayings in the Bible and other older literature and put a newer spin on them. Jesus was here likely using a ‘figure of speech’, though not a really crazy one as it is fairly direct.…

Luke 7:34 “”The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say,`Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!”    Jesus was not like John in that He did not approach from the wilderness with a strange look and unique habits. He was instead much like most people.…