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APRIL 4
8 I delight to do Your will, O my God, ‘We played the flute for you,
And Your law is within my heart.” And you did not dance;
We mourned to you,
9 I have proclaimed the good news
of righteousness And you did not weep.’
In the great assembly; 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating
Indeed, I do not restrain my lips, bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has
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O LORD, You Yourself know. a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and
within my heart; a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sin-
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I have declared Your faithfulness and ners!’ But wisdom is justified by all her chil-
Your salvation; dren.”
I have not concealed Your 36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat
lovingkindness and Your truth with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house,
From the great assembly. and sat down to eat. And behold, a woman in
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the city who was a sinner, when she knew that
11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies
from me, O LORD; Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house,
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Let Your lovingkindness and Your brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and
truth continually preserve me. stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she
12 For innumerable evils have began to wash His feet with her tears, and
surrounded me; wiped them with the hair of her head; and she
My iniquities have overtaken me, kissed His feet and anointed them with the fra-
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so that I am not able to look up; grant oil. Now when the Pharisee who had
They are more than the hairs of invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, say-
my head; ing, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would
Therefore my heart fails me. know who and what manner of woman this is
who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
Proverbs 13:11–12 40 And Jesus answered and said to him,
11 Wealth gained by dishonesty will be “Simon, I have something to say to you.”
diminished, So he said, “Teacher, say it.”
But he who gathers by labor will 41 “There was a certain creditor who had two
increase. debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and
the other fifty. And when they had nothing
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12 Hope deferred makes the with which to repay, he freely forgave them
heart sick, both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will
But when the desire comes, it is love him more?”
a tree of life. 43 Simon answered and said, “I suppose the
Luke 7:31–50 one whom he forgave more.”
And He said to him, “You have rightly
31 And the Lord said, “To what then shall I judged.” Then He turned to the woman and
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liken the men of this generation, and what are said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I
they like? They are like children sitting in the entered your house; you gave Me no water for
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marketplace and calling to one another, saying: My feet, but she has washed My feet with her
tears and wiped them with the hair of her
head. You gave Me no kiss, but this woman
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has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I
came in. You did not anoint My head with oil,
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but this woman has anointed My feet with fra-
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grant oil. Therefore I say to you, her sins,
7:32 like children. Christ used strong derision
to rebuke the Pharisees. He suggested they which are many, are forgiven, for she loved
were behaving childishly,determined not to be much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same
pleased,whether invited to “dance”(a reference loves little.”
to Christ’s joyous style of ministry,“eating and 48 Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
drinking” with sinners—v. 34) or urged to 49 And those who sat at the table with Him
“weep”(a reference to John the Baptist’s call to began to say to themselves, “Who is this who
repentance and John’s more austere manner even forgives sins?”
of ministry—v. 33). 50 Then He said to the woman, “Your faith
has saved you. Go in peace.”
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