Luke 7
EdwardsLuke 7:37
Luke 7:37. “And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster-box of ointment.” This woman seems to have been before a common whore, and that precious ointment was what she kept to anoint herself with, to render herself agreeable to her gallants, and particularly used to anoint her hair with, which was accounted the special ornament of women, and that she now makes use of as a towel to wipe Christ’s feet; and having, now [that] she is brought to repentance, no further use for the costly box in that way, nor the precious ointment that is in it, she breaks the box and pours the ointment on Christ.
Luke 7:41-42
Luke 7:41, 42. “There was a certain creditor which had two debtors, the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?” Christ plainly intimates that He is the creditor, or that He is the Being against whom sin is committed; for He is the person that forgives the debtor: verses Luke 7:48; Luke 7:49, “And He said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. And they that sat at meat with Him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?” And He is the person the debtor loves for forgiveness of the debt: Luke 7:44-47, “And He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest Me no water for My feet: but she hath washed My feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest Me no kiss: but this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss My feet.
My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed My feet with ointment. Wherefore, I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.” And if Christ be the creditor, He is God.