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the Pharisees and religious officials would have nothing to do with such a baptism, wouldn't think of giving up their place in line to their inferiors.
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"How can I account for the people of this generation?
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They're like spoiled children complaining to their parents, 'We wanted to skip rope and you were always too tired; we wanted to talk but you were always too busy.'
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John the Baptizer came fasting and you called him crazy.
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The Son of Man came feasting and you called him a lush.
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Opinion polls don't count for much, do they? The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Anointing His Feet
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One of the Pharisees asked him over for a meal. He went to the Pharisee's house and sat down at the dinner table.
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Just then a woman of the village, the town harlot, having learned that Jesus was a guest in the home of the Pharisee, came with a bottle of very expensive perfume
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and stood at his feet, weeping, raining tears on his feet. Letting down her hair, she dried his feet, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfume.
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When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man was the prophet I thought he was, he would have known what kind of woman this is who is falling all over him."
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Jesus said to him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." "Oh? Tell me."