Luke 5:27- 32

Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners



After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax

collector by the name of Levi sitting at his

tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him,

and Levi got up, left everything and followed

him.



Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus

at his house, and a large crowd of tax

collectors and others were eating with them.

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law

who belonged to their sect complained to his

disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with

tax collectors and sinners?”



Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who

need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call

the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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Luke 18:9-14



The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector



To some who were confident of their own

righteousness and

looked down on everyone else,

Jesus told this parable:



“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a

Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood

by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you

that I am not like

other people—robbers, evildoers,

adulterers—or even like

this tax collector. I fast twice a week

and give a tenth of all I get.’



“But the tax collector stood at a distance.

He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his

breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’



“I tell you that this man, rather than the other,

went home justified before God. For all those who

exalt themselves will be humbled, and those

who humble themselves will be exalted.”

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Luke 7:36-50

Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman

When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have

dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house

and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who

lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating

at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an

alabaster jar of perfume. As she stood behind him

at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet

with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair,

kissed them and poured perfume on them.



When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he

said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he

would know who is touching him and what kind of

woman she is—that she is a sinner.”



Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to

tell you.”

“Tell me, teacher,” he said.



Jesus said:

“Two people owed money to a certain moneylender.

One owed him five hundred denarii,and the other fifty.

Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he

forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will

love him more?”



Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger

debt forgiven.”



“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.



Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon,

“Do you see this woman? I came into your house.

You did not give me any water for my feet,

but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with

her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman,

from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet.

You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured

perfume on my feet. Therefore, I tell you, her many

sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown.

But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”



Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”



The other guests began to say among themselves,

“Who is this who even forgives sins?”



Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you;

go in peace.”

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John 8:1-11

The Woman who was caught in adultery



At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts,

where all the people gathered around him, and he

sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law

and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in

adultery. They made her stand before the group

and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught

in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded

us to throw a rock at such women. Now what do you say?”

They were using this question as a trap, in order

to have a basis for accusing him.



But Jesus bent down and started to write on the

ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning

him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any

one of you who is without sin be the first to throw

a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote

on the ground.



At this, those who heard began to go away one at a

time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left,

with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened

up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one

condemned you?”



“No one, sir,” she said.



“Then neither do I threaten you,” Jesus declared.

“Go now and leave your life of sin.”

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Luke 23:32-43

Jesus and the two criminals.

Two other men, both criminals, were also led out

with him to be executed. When they came to the

place called the Skull, they crucified him there,

along with the criminals—one on his right, the other

on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them,

for they do not know what they are doing.”

And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.



The people stood watching, and the rulers even

sneered at him. They said, “He saved others;

let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah,

the Chosen One.”



The soldiers also came up and .

laugh and made fun of jesus.

They offered him wine vinegar and said,

“If you are the king of the Jews, save

yourself.”



There was a written notice above him,

which read: this is the king of the jews.



One of the criminals who hung there said

bad words at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah?

Save yourself and us!”



But the other criminal rebuked him.

“Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are

under the same sentence? We are punished justly,

for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this

man has done nothing wrong.”



But the other criminal rebuked him.

“Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are

under the same sentence? We are punished justly,

for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this

man has done nothing wrong.”



Then the criminal said to Jesus, Lord

rember me, when you enter your kingdom.



and jesus said: Truly I say to you, on

this day you will be

with me in paradise.

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