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And the Lord said, Unto whom then shall I compare the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
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They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace and calling one to another and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
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For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon.
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The Son of man is come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
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But wisdom is justified of all her children.
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And one of the Pharisees asked him if he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house and sat down to food.
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And, behold, a woman who had been a sinner in the city, when she knew that
Jesus sat at food in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
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and stood at his feet behind
him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and wiped
them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed
them with the ointment.
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Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw
it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman
this is that touches him, for she is a sinner.
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And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have something to say unto thee. And he said, Master, say on.
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There was a certain creditor who had two debtors: the one owed five hundred denarius, and the other fifty.