Luke 7:37

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Summary

And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and you say look he is a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

And the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus disciples. They asked: Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?

But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.

Many in the crowd complained saying: He is staying with a man who is a sinner.

Which of the two pleased his father? They replied: The first. Jesus said to them: I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you.

So they called the man that was blind a second time, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.

But God demonstrates (commends) his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Knowing this, that Law is not made for a righteous person. It is for the lawless and unruly, the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, and for manslayers.

If the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear?

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A woman came to him having an alabaster vase containing very precious ointment. She poured it upon his head while he was eating.

He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper. While he was dining a woman with an alabaster vase filled with costly perfume, of pure nard (spikenard), brake it open and poured it over his head.

This is the same Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

Jesus ate supper there. He and Lazarus sat at the meal while Martha served.