Luke 7:37

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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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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.'

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

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."

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.

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."

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

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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a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and poured the perfume upon his head as he was at table.

When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head.

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

There a supper was given in honor at which Martha waited, while Lazarus was one of those present at the table.