The woman who washed Jesus feet with her tears.

Luke 7: 36 – 50 records that a woman who was a sinner heard that Jesus would dine at a Pharisees house. She brought an alabaster box of ointment and stood at his feet weeping. She washed his dusty feet with her tears, wiped them with her hair and then anointed his feet with the ointment.  My King James version of the Bible states  “Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet would have known who and what manner of woman  this is that touches him; for she is a sinner.”

Christ then gives a parable about a man with two debtors, one owed ten times as much as the other, but the creditor forgave them both.  Which of these would love him the most?  Simon answered that he supposed the one who owed the most. This woman had so much more to give up that the Pharisee who had not washed Christ feet nor anointed his head or his feet.

Do we sometimes get so “good” that we don’t have much to repent of? In so doing do we sometimes overlook small infractions?  Oh, I’m not saying we need to walk around with a persecution complex, but we do need to be careful and stay humble. None of us are above sin despite all the good we have done. As Ross Perot said, what have you done (for the company, or in this case for Christ) lately?

Christ forgave the woman her sins,  and said, “She loved much , but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little… and he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.”

In other words she had repented, had recognized herself as a sinner, and had thrown herself at Jesus feet in faith and was forgiven.