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But only speak the word, and let my servant be healed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and the slave does it.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jesus Raises the Widow’s Son at Nain</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Soon afterwards<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29471b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowd from the town. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then he came forward and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, rise!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29475c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> gave him to his mother. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Fear seized all of them; and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us!” and “God has looked favorably on his people!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>This word about him spread throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Messengers from John the Baptist</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The disciples of John reported all these things to him. So John summoned two of his disciples </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>When the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Jesus<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29481d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> had just then cured many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and had given sight to many who were blind. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29482e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29484f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> began to speak to the crowds about John:<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29484g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>What then did you go out to see? Someone<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29485h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> dressed in soft robes? Look, those who put on fine clothing and live in luxury are in royal palaces. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>This is the one about whom it is written,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who will prepare your way before you.’</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John; yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29489i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> because they had been baptized with John’s baptism. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>But by refusing to be baptized by him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves.)</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>“To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">we wailed, and you did not weep.’</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">A Sinful Woman Forgiven</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>One of the Pharisees asked Jesus<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29496j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>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 kind of woman this is who is touching him—that she is a sinner.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Teacher,” he replied, “speak.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29501k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> and the other fifty. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>When they could not pay, he canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the greater debt.” And Jesus<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-29503l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> said to him, “You have judged rightly.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</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 bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">45</span>You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">46</span>You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">47</span>Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">48</span>Then he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">49</span>But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">50</span>And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:1">Luke 7:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:11">Luke 7:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>Next day</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:15">Luke 7:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:21">Luke 7:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>He</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:22">Luke 7:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>The terms <i>leper</i> and <i>leprosy</i> can refer to several diseases</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:24">Luke 7:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:24">Luke 7:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:25">Luke 7:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Why then did you go out? To see someone</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:29">Luke 7:29</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>praised God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:36">Luke 7:36</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:41">Luke 7:41</a> <span class='footnote-text'>The denarius was the usual day’s wage for a laborer</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 7:43">Luke 7:43</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>he</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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