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Luke - ch 7 v 21 - 40
- In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.
- And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;
- and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me.
- And the messengers of John having departed, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John: What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?
- But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate garments? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and live luxuriously are in the courts of kings.
- But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and what is more excellent than a prophet.
- This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;
- for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a greater prophet is no one than John the baptist; but he who is a little one in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
- (And all the people who heard it, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;
- but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by him.)
- To whom therefore shall I liken the men of this generation, and to whom are they like?
- They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
- For John the baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon.
- The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold an eater and wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;
- and wisdom has been justified of all her children.
- But one of the Pharisees begged him that he would eat with him. And entering into the house of the Pharisee he took his place at table;
- and behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, and knew that he was sitting at meat in the house of the Pharisee, having taken an alabaster box of myrrh,
- and standing at his feet behind him weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the myrrh.
- And the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spoke with himself saying, This person if he were a prophet would have known who and what the woman is who touches him, for she is a sinner.
- And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. And he says, Teacher, say it.
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