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To whom therefore shall I liken the men of this generation, and to whom are they like?
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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.
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For John the baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon.
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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;
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and wisdom has been justified of all her children.
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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;
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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,
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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.
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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.
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And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. And he says, Teacher, say [it].
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There were two debtors of a certain creditor: one owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty;