riversident - Luke:7:18-35

riversident@Luke:7:18 @ John's disciples told him about all these things.

riversident@Luke:7:19 @ So he called to him two of his disciples and sent them to the Master to ask, "Are you 'the Coming One' or are we to expect some other person?"

riversident@Luke:7:20 @ When they came to him, the men said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, Are you 'the Coming One' or are we to expect some other person?"

riversident@Luke:7:21 @ At that very time he was curing many of diseases and pains and wicked spirits, and to many blind people he was giving sight.

riversident@Luke:7:22 @ He answered them,

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riversident@Luke:7:24 @ After John's messengers had left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John:

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riversident@Luke:7:29 @ (All the people, even the tax collectors when they heard him, had confessed that God was right by being baptized with the baptism of John.

riversident@Luke:7:30 @ But the Pharisees and the lawyers had thwarted the purpose of God in reference to themselves by not being baptized by him.)

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riversident@Luke:7:36 @ One of the Pharisees kept asking him to dine with him. Entering the house of this Pharisee, he reclined at the table.

riversident@Luke:7:37 @ Now there was a certain woman in the city, a sinner, and when she learned that he was at table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment

riversident@Luke:7:38 @ and took her place behind, beside his feet, weeping. Her tears began to rain down on his feet, and with the hair of her head she wiped them off, and she passionately kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

riversident@Luke:7:39 @ When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said within himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what this woman who is touching him is, for she is a sinner."

riversident@Luke:7:40 @ Jesus, answering his thought, said to him, "Teacher," he said, "say it."

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riversident@Luke:7:43 @ Simon answered, "I suppose the one to whom he forgave most." He said to him,

riversident@Luke:7:44 @ Then, turning to the woman, he said to Simon,

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riversident@Luke:7:48 @ He said to her,

riversident@Luke:7:49 @ The other guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this that even forgives sins?"

riversident@Luke:7:50 @ He said to the woman,