A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                             LOVE POURED OUT PART IV

"I, Simon the Pharisee, have a dinner tonight.... One of the guests was Jesus... As we were having our meal a woman walked in.... She had not been invited... She came anyway... We all know her as that sinful woman.... She somehow managed to slip in and move behind Jesus.... She was crying.... Her teard wetted His feet.... She then did the unthinkable....She loosened her hair.... What a scandalous thing to do... She then began to use her hair as a towel to dry His feet with.... I looked at the whole scene with amazement.... I expected Jesus to say something to stop her... But He did not... That was not all though... The woman next opened a bottle of very expensive perfume... And she poured it over Jesus' feet!!... What a waste!!.... But there was nothing I could do to stop her... And it should not have been me to stop her from doing this... Jesus should have stopped her from doing this.... Did He not know who she was?... He is supposed to be a Prophet.... If that is true then he would know who she was."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Simon the Pharisee questions whether Jesus is a Prophet or not...

                ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                           LOVE POURED OUT PART IV

Jesus allows the sinful woman to miniter to Him in the way she desires to. He does not send her away. Perhaps that is because He does not know what kind of woman she is or does He know?..." The religious leader has that question in mind as well as you can read in Luke 7:39

When the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, He would know who is touching Him and what kind of woman she is - that she is a sinner."

Outwardly the religious leader is very polite to Jesus, making no comment what so ever on what the sinful woman is doing. However, inwardly, he is very critical of Jesus and decides that Jesus cannot possibly be a prophet since he does not even recognise what kind of woman touches Him.