In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Eleventh
Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen:
GospelLk
7:36 - 50
A Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him, and he entered
the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. Now there was a sinful woman in the
city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing
an alabaster flask of ointment, she stood behind him at his feet weeping and
began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed
them, and anointed them with the ointment. When the Pharisee who had invited him
saw this he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who
and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.” Jesus
said to him in reply, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Tell me, teacher,
” he said. “Two people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred
day’s wages and the other owed fifty. Since they were unable to repay the debt,
he forgave it for both. Which of them will love him more?” Simon said in reply, “The
one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.” He said to him, “You have judged
rightly.”
Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this
woman? When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet, but
she has bathed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not
give me a kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered. You
did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment. So
I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven because she has shown great love. But
the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” He said to her, “Your sins are
forgiven.” The others at table said to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives
sins?” But he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”