33. For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
34. The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
35. But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
36. Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table.
37. Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.
38. As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.
39. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”
40. So Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” He replied, “Say it, Teacher.”
41. “A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.