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And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?
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They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.
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For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say: He hath a devil.
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The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.
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And wisdom is justified by all her children.
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And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went into the house of the Pharisee and sat down to meat.
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And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.
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And standing behind at his feet. she 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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And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.
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And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. But he said: Master, say it.
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A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty.