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They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another, 'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.'
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For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, 'He has a demon.'
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The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, 'Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
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Yet wisdom is justified by all her children."
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One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house, and took his place at table.
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And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,
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and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair 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 said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner."
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And Jesus answering said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." And he answered, "What is it, Teacher?"
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"A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
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When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Now which of them will love him more?"