A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?" Simon answered, "The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt." And he said to him, "You have judged rightly." – Luke 7:41-43 (ESV)
In this parable, it is good for us to do the hard work of seeing who we are like, the woman or the Pharisee. The point here is one of need: the woman saw that she had great need for Jesus, Simon did not. What is interesting is that Paul, the “Hebrew of Hebrew’s” (Phil 3:4-6) saw this sort of standing as “rubbish” compared to Christ (Phil 3:7-9). Everyone needs Jesus, but not everyone realizes it.
