, being not baptized by him.

7:31. And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this
generation? And to what are they like?

7:32. They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking
one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not
danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.

7:33. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine.
And you say: He hath a devil.

7:34. The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a
man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and
sinners.

7:35. And wisdom is justified by all her children.

7:36. And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went
into the house of the Pharisee and sat down to meat.

One of the Pharisees: that is, Simon.

7:37. And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew
that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of
ointment.

7:38. And standing behind at his feet she began to wash his feet with
tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and
anointed them with the ointment.

7:39. And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within
himself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely
who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a
sinner.

7:40. And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say to
thee. But he said: Master, say it.

7:41. A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred
pence and the other fifty.

7:42. And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both.
Which therefore of the two loveth him most?

7:43. Simon answering, said: I suppose that he to whom he forgave most.
And he said to him: Thou hast judged rightly.

7:44. And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this
woman? I entered into thy house: thou gavest me no water for my feet.
But she with tears hath washed my feet; and with her hairs hath wiped
them.

7:45. Thou gavest me no kiss. But she, since she cane in, hath not
ceased to kiss my feet.

7:46. My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment hath
anointed my feet.

7:47. Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she
hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less.

Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much... In the
scripture an effect sometimes seems attribut