Luke 7:43 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 7:43

“I suppose the one who was forgiven more,” Simon replied. “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

BSB

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ASV

Simon answered and said, He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

KJV

Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

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Commentary

1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

But in the Pharisee's house, that is, in the house of the Law and the Prophets, not the Pharisee, but the Church is justified. For the Pharisee believed not, the Church believed. The Law has no mystery by which secret faults are cleansed, and therefore that which is wanting in the Law is made up in the Gospel. But the two debtors are the two nations who are responsible for payment to the usurer of the heavenly treasury.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Which of them will love him most? - Neither of them will love him at all, before he has forgiven them. An insolvent debtor, till he is forgiven, does not love, but fly his creditor.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God has proclaimed his name gracious and merciful, and ready to forgive sin; and, his Son having purchased pardon for penitent believers, his gospel promises it to them, and his Spirit seals it and gives them the comfort of it. [5.] That those who have their sins pardoned are obliged to love him that pardoned them; and the more is forgiven them, the more they should love him.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was a kiss of adoration as well as affection. She wiped them with her hair, as one entirely devoted to his honour. Her eyes shall yield water to wash them, and her hair be a towel to wipe them; and she anointed his feet with the ointment, owning him hereby to be the Messiah, the Anointed.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

The deeply interesting narrative contained in these verses, is only found in the Gospel of Luke. In order to see the full beauty of the story — we should read, in connection with it, the eleventh chapter of Matthew. We shall then discover the striking fact that the woman whose conduct is here recorded, most likely owed her conversion to the well-known words, "Come unto Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden — and I will give you rest."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The two debtors are the woman and Simon; the criminality of the one was ten times that of the other (in the proportion of "five hundred" to "fifty"); but both being equally insolvent, both are with equal frankness forgiven; and Simon is made to own that the greatest debtor to forgiving mercy will cling to her Divine Benefactor with the deepest gratitude.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀποκριθεὶς	apokritheis	Answering	G611 →
Σίμων	Simōn	Simon	G4613 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	said;	G2036 →
ὑπολαμβάνω	hupolambanō	I take it	G5274 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ᾧ	hō	[he] to whom	G3739 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πλεῖον	pleion	most	G4119 →
ἐχαρίσατο.	echarisato	he forgave.	G5483 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
εἶπεν	eipen	He said	G2036 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to him;	G846 →
ὀρθῶς	orthōs	Rightly	G3723 →
ἔκρινας.	ekrinas	You have judged.	G2919 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
leads to
- 1 John 4:19
  We love because He first loved us.
- 1 John 3:18
  Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- Romans 5:20
  The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Galatians 5:6
  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- Isaiah 1:18
  “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
Through
Luke 10:38
As they traveled along, Jesus entered a village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.
leads to
- John 11:19–20
  and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
- John 12:1–3
  Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
- John 11:1–5
  At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

About Luke

The Return of the Prodigal Son — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Luke