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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the Son of man is come eating and drinking like other men, and ye call Him a gluttonous man and a wine bibber, and a friend of publicans and sinners.

And their scribes and pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

But the publican standing at a distance did not presume so much as to lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, be merciful to me a sinner.

And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, He is gone to be guest with a wicked man.

Now which of the two did the will of his father? They say unto Him, The first. Jesus replied, Verily I say unto you, that publicans and prostitutes enter into the kingdom of God before you:

Then they called a second time for the man that had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: for we know that this man is a great sinner.

But God recommendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

knowing this, that a law does not lie against a righteous person, but against the lawless and unruly, the impious and wicked, the unholy and profane,

And if the righteous be saved with difficulty, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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there came to Him a woman with an alabaster-box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as He was at table:

And when He was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He was at table, there came a woman with an alabaster-box of ointment of spikenard, very valuable; and she brake the box and poured it on his head.

(And it was Mary, that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

Therefore they made Him a supper there, and Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of them that sat down with Him.