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He was not far from the house when the officer sent friends to tell him, “Sir, don't trouble yourself. I do not deserve to have you come into my house, </span><span class="v42_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.7" class="v42_7_7">7</span>neither do I consider myself worthy to come to you in person. Just give the order, and my servant will get well. </span><span class="v42_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.8" class="v42_7_8">8</span>I, too, am a man placed under the authority of superior officers, and I have soldiers under me. I order this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; I order that one, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and I order my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.9" class="v42_7_9">9</span>Jesus was surprised when he heard this; he turned around and said to the crowd following him, “I tell you, I have never found faith like this, not even in Israel!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.10" class="v42_7_10">10</span>The messengers went back to the officer's house and found his servant well.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Raises a Widow's Son</h3><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.11" class="v42_7_11">11</span>Soon afterward<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.7.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Jesus went to a town named Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd. </span><span class="v42_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.12" class="v42_7_12">12</span>Just as he arrived at the gate of the town, a funeral procession was coming out. The dead man was the only son of a woman who was a widow, and a large crowd from the town was with her. </span><span class="v42_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.13" class="v42_7_13">13</span>When the Lord saw her, his heart was filled with pity for her, and he said to her, “Don't cry.” </span><span class="v42_7_14"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.14" class="v42_7_14">14</span>Then he walked over and touched the coffin, and the men carrying it stopped. Jesus said, “Young man! Get up, I tell you!” </span><span class="v42_7_15"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.15" class="v42_7_15">15</span>The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_16"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.16" class="v42_7_16">16</span>They all were filled with fear and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said; “God has come to save his people!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_17"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.17" class="v42_7_17">17</span>This news about Jesus went out through all the country and the surrounding territory.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Messengers from John the Baptist</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 11:2-19">Matthew 11.2-19</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_18"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.18" class="v42_7_18">18</span>When John's disciples told him about all these things, he called two of them </span><span class="v42_7_19"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.19" class="v42_7_19">19</span>and sent them to the Lord to ask him, “Are you the one John said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_20"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.20" class="v42_7_20">20</span>When they came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask if you are the one he said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_21"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.21" class="v42_7_21">21</span>At that very time Jesus healed many people from their sicknesses, diseases, and evil spirits, and gave sight to many blind people. </span><span class="v42_7_22"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.22" class="v42_7_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.7.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He answered John's messengers, “Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean,<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.7.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the deaf can hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor. </span><span class="v42_7_23"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.23" class="v42_7_23">23</span>How happy are those who have no doubts about me!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_24"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.24" class="v42_7_24">24</span>After John's messengers had left, Jesus began to speak about him to the crowds: “When you went out to John in the desert, what did you expect to see? A blade of grass bending in the wind? </span><span class="v42_7_25"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.25" class="v42_7_25">25</span>What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in fancy clothes? People who dress like that and live in luxury are found in palaces! </span><span class="v42_7_26"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.26" class="v42_7_26">26</span>Tell me, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed, but you saw much more than a prophet. </span><span class="v42_7_27"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.27" class="v42_7_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.7.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For John is the one of whom the scripture says: ‘God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.’ </span><span class="v42_7_28"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.28" class="v42_7_28">28</span>I tell you,” Jesus added, “John is greater than anyone who has ever lived. But the one who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than John.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_29"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.29" class="v42_7_29">29</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.7.29!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> All the people heard him; they and especially the tax collectors were the ones who had obeyed God's righteous demands and had been baptized by John. </span><span class="v42_7_30"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.30" class="v42_7_30">30</span>But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law rejected God's purpose for themselves and refused to be baptized by John.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_31"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.31" class="v42_7_31">31</span>Jesus continued, “Now to what can I compare the people of this day? What are they like? </span><span class="v42_7_32"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.32" class="v42_7_32">32</span>They are like children sitting in the marketplace. One group shouts to the other, ‘We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn't dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn't cry!’ </span><span class="v42_7_33"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.33" class="v42_7_33">33</span>John the Baptist came, and he fasted and drank no wine, and you said, ‘He has a demon in him!’ </span><span class="v42_7_34"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.34" class="v42_7_34">34</span>The Son of Man came, and he ate and drank, and you said, ‘Look at this man! He is a glutton and wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and other outcasts!’ </span><span class="v42_7_35"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.35" class="v42_7_35">35</span>God's wisdom, however, is shown to be true by all who accept it.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee</h3><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_36"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.36" class="v42_7_36">36</span>A Pharisee invited Jesus to have dinner with him, and Jesus went to his house and sat down to eat. </span><span class="v42_7_37"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.37" class="v42_7_37">37</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.7.37!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> In that town was a woman who lived a sinful life. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee's house, so she brought an alabaster jar full of perfume </span><span class="v42_7_38"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.38" class="v42_7_38">38</span>and stood behind Jesus, by his feet, crying and wetting his feet with her tears. Then she dried his feet with her hair, kissed them, and poured the perfume on them. </span><span class="v42_7_39"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.39" class="v42_7_39">39</span>When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know who this woman is who is touching him; he would know what kind of sinful life she lives!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_40"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.40" class="v42_7_40">40</span>Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_40">“Yes, Teacher,” he said, “tell me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_41"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.41" class="v42_7_41">41</span>“There were two men who owed money to a moneylender,” Jesus began. “One owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed him fifty. </span><span class="v42_7_42"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.42" class="v42_7_42">42</span>Neither of them could pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Which one, then, will love him more?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_43"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.43" class="v42_7_43">43</span>“I suppose,” answered Simon, “that it would be the one who was forgiven more.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_43">“You are right,” said Jesus. </span><span class="v42_7_44"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.44" class="v42_7_44">44</span>Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your home, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. </span><span class="v42_7_45"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.45" class="v42_7_45">45</span>You did not welcome me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet since I came. </span><span class="v42_7_46"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.46" class="v42_7_46">46</span>You provided no olive oil for my head, but she has covered my feet with perfume. </span><span class="v42_7_47"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.47" class="v42_7_47">47</span>I tell you, then, the great love she has shown proves that her many sins have been forgiven. But whoever has been forgiven little shows only a little love.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_48"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.48" class="v42_7_48">48</span>Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_49"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.49" class="v42_7_49">49</span>The others sitting at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_7_50"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.7.50" class="v42_7_50">50</span>But Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.11: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Soon afterward; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The next day.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.22: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">made clean: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 5.12.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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