eed of a physician. I
did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."

At another time one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to dine with him. So
Jesus entered the Pharisee's house and sat down at the table. In the
town was a wicked woman who, when she heard that Jesus was sitting at
the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of perfume.
She stood behind at his feet, weeping; and as her tears began to wet his
feet, she wiped them with her hair. And she tenderly kissed his feet and
poured the perfume over them.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "If
this man were a prophet, he would know about the woman who is touching
him, for she is a sinner."

Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have a word to say to you." He replied,
"Say it, Master." "There were two men who owed a certain money-lender
some silver: one owed him five hundred silver pieces and the other
fifty. Neither of them was able to pay anything; so he forgave them
both. Now which of them will love him the more?" Simon answered, "I
suppose the man who owed the most." Jesus said to him, "You have decided
rightly."

Turning to the woman, Jesus said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I
came into 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. You gave me no
kiss, but she, since I came in, has not ceased tenderly to kiss my feet.
You did not pour any oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my
feet. Therefore, I say to you, her sins, though they be many, are
forgiven, for she has loved much. He to whom little is forgiven, loves
little."

Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." And the other guests
began to say to themselves, "Who is this man who even forgives sins?"
But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go and be at
peace."

JESUS FINDS JOY IN ALL HIS WORK

Once when John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, people
came to Jesus and said, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples
of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

Jesus said to them, "Can guests fast at a wedding while the bridegroom
is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot
fast. But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from
them; then they will fast. No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old
coat; otherwise the patch breaks away from it, the new from the old, and
th