Inspire Bible for Kids Luke Sampler - Book - Page 31
LUKE 7:46
live in luxury are found in palaces. 26 Were you looking for a prophet? Yes,
and he is more than a prophet. 27 John is the man to whom the Scriptures
refer when they say,
‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
and he will prepare your way before you.’*
28 I tell you, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John. Yet even
the least person in the Kingdom of God is greater than he is!”
29 When they heard this, all the people—even the tax collectors—agreed
that God’s way was right,* for they had been baptized by John. 30 But the
Pharisees and experts in religious law rejected God’s plan for them, for they
had refused John’s baptism.
31 “To what can I compare the people of this generation?” Jesus asked.
“How can I describe them? 32 They are like children playing a game in the
public square. They complain to their friends,
‘We played wedding songs,
and you didn’t dance,
so we played funeral songs,
and you didn’t weep.’
33 For John the Baptist didn’t spend his time eating bread or drinking wine,
and you say, ‘He’s possessed by a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man,* on the other
hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and
a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!’ 35 But wisdom is shown to be
right by the lives of those who follow it.*”
Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman
36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to
his home and sat down to eat.* 37 When a certain immoral woman from that
city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled
with expensive perfume. 38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping.
Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she
kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.
39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If
this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching
him. She’s a sinner!”
40 Then Jesus answered his thoughts. “Simon,” he said to the Pharisee, “I
have something to say to you.”
“Go ahead, Teacher,” Simon replied.
41 Then Jesus told him this story: “A man loaned money to two
people—500 pieces of silver* to one and 50 pieces to the other. 42 But neither
of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their
debts. Who do you suppose loved him more after that?”
43 Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger
debt.”
“That’s right,” Jesus said. 44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you
didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed
them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You didn’t greet me
with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing
my feet. 46 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she
has anointed my feet with rare perfume.
7:27 Mal 3:1. 7:29 Or praised God for his justice. 7:34 “Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for
himself. 7:35 Or But wisdom is justified by all her children. 7:36 Or and reclined. 7:41 Greek
500 denarii. A denarius was equivalent to a laborer’s full day’s wage.
|
1285
Memory Verse
“For the word
of God will
never fail.”
Luke 1:37
