Luke 7
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- 1When Jesus had finished saying all of this to the crowd, he went to Capernaum.
- 2There, a Roman centurion had a servant he valued deeply, but the servant was sick and close to death.
- 3When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking Jesus to come and heal his servant.
- 4They came to Jesus and pleaded with him urgently. "This man deserves your help," they said.
- 5"He loves our people, and he's the one who built our synagogue."
- 6So Jesus went with them. But when he was getting close to the house, the centurion sent friends with a message: "Lord, don't go to the trouble. I'm not worthy to have you come into my home.
- 7That's why I didn't even feel worthy to come to you myself. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
- 8I understand how authority works — I'm a man under authority myself, with soldiers under me. I tell one, 'Go,' and he goes. I tell another, 'Come,' and he comes. I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
- 9When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. He turned to the crowd following him and said, "I'm telling you, I haven't found faith this great anywhere in Israel."
- 10When the messengers returned to the house, they found the servant completely well.
- 11The next day, Jesus traveled to a town called Nain. A large crowd and many of his disciples went along with him.
- 12As he approached the town gate, a funeral procession was coming out. The dead man was the only son of a widow, and a large crowd from the town was with her.
- 13When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said, "Don't cry."
- 14Then he walked up and touched the bier, and the men carrying it stopped. He said, 'Young man, I tell you—get up!'
- 15The dead man sat up and began to talk! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
- 16Everyone was filled with fear, and they praised God, saying, "A great prophet has risen among us!" and "God has visited his people!"
- 17News about Jesus spread throughout all of Judea and the entire surrounding region.
- 18John's disciples told him about everything that was happening.
- 19So John called two of his disciples and sent them to Jesus, asking, 'Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?'
- 20When the men reached Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist sent us to ask you: 'Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for someone else?'"
- 21Right then and there, Jesus healed many people of diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and he restored sight to many who were blind.
- 22Then Jesus answered them, "Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor."
- 23And blessed is the person who is not offended by me.
- 24When John’s messengers had left, he began to speak to the people about John, saying, “What did you go into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?”
- 25Then what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? People who wear expensive clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
- 26So what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes — and I tell you, he's far more than a prophet.
- 27He is the one Scripture talks about when it says, 'Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare the way before you.'
- 28I tell you, no one ever born is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he is."
- 29All the people who heard him, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice, having been baptized with John's baptism.
- 30But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God's purpose for them, because they had refused to be baptized by John.
- 31"So what should I compare the people of this generation to? What are they like?
- 32They're like children sitting in the marketplace calling out to each other: 'We played music for you, and you didn't dance! We sang a funeral song, and you didn't cry!'
- 33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
- 34The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
- 35But wisdom is justified by all her children.
- 36One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to dinner. So Jesus went to his house and took his place at the table.
- 37A woman in that town who had lived a sinful life found out that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house. She brought an alabaster jar of perfumed ointment
- 38and stood behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them with her hair, kissing his feet over and over and pouring the ointment on them.
- 39When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he thought to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he'd know what kind of woman is touching him. She's a sinner."
- 40Jesus spoke up. "Simon, I have something to tell you." "Go ahead, Teacher," Simon replied.
- 41A moneylender had two people who owed him money. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other owed fifty.
- 42Neither of them could pay him back, so he forgave both debts. Now, which of them do you think will love him more?"
- 43Simon answered, "I'd guess the one who had the bigger debt forgiven." Jesus said, "You're exactly right."
- 44Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? When I came into your house, you didn't offer me water to wash my feet. But she has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.
- 45You didn't greet me with a kiss, but from the moment I walked in, she hasn't stopped kissing my feet.
- 46You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has poured ointment on my feet.
- 47Therefore, I tell you, her many sins are forgiven, for she loved much. But whoever is forgiven little loves little.
- 48Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
- 49The other guests began to say among themselves, 'Who is this who even forgives sins?'
- 50But Jesus said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."