“A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
41. A certain creditor had two debtors The scope of this parable is to demonstrate, that Simon is wrong in condemning the woman who is acquitted by the heavenly judge. He proves that she is righteous, not because she pleased God, but because her sins were forgiven; for otherwise her case would not correspond to the parable, in which Christ expressly states, that the creditor...
When and where this passage of story happened does not appear; this evangelist does not observe order of time in his narrative so much as the other evangelists do; but it comes in here, upon occasion of Christ's being reproached as a friend to publicans and sinners, to show that it was only for their good, and to bring them to repentance, that he conversed...
Commenting on Luke 7:36-50
Thou gavest me no kiss,.... A token of civility among friends, when they met together on any occasion. The Jews have a saying (b), that "all kisses are foolish, excepting three; the kiss of grandeur or dignity, as in Sa1 10:1 and the kiss at parting, as in Rut 1:14 and the kiss at meeting, as in Exo 4:27 (of which sort this kiss may...