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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 7 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Luke 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/6.htm" title="Luke 6">◄</a> Luke 7 <a href="../luke/8.htm" title="Luke 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/luke/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Healing the Centurion’s Slave</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After Jesus had finished teaching all this to the people, he entered Capernaum. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When they came to Jesus, they urged him earnestly, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>because he loves our nation, and even built our synagogue.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. He turned and said to the crowd that followed him, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave well.</p> <p class="title">Raising a Widow’s Son</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.</p> <p class="title">Jesus and John the Baptist</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and sent them to Jesus to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So he answered them, “Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ courts! <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>This is the one about whom it is written, ‘<b><i>Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,</i></b> <b><i>who will prepare your way before you</i></b>.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another,</p><p class="poetry2">‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance;</p><p class="poetry2">we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’</p> <p class="bodyblock"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”</p> <p class="title">Jesus’ Anointing</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” He replied, “Say it, Teacher.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Simon answered, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/7-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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