谁是真正的罪人？
路加福音七章36至50节
36有一个法利赛人请耶稣和他吃饭；耶稣就到法利赛人家里去坐席。
37那城里有一个女人，是个罪人，知道耶稣在法利赛人家里坐席，就拿着盛香膏的玉瓶，
38站在耶稣背后，挨着他的脚哭，眼泪湿了耶稣的脚，就用自己的头发擦干，又用嘴连连亲他的脚，把香膏抹上。
39请耶稣的法利赛人看见这事，心里说：这人若是先知，必知道摸他的是谁，是个怎样的女人，乃是个罪人。
40耶稣对他说：西门！我有句话要对你说。西门说：夫子，请说。
41耶稣说：一个债主有两个人欠他的债；一个欠五十两银子，一个欠五两银子；
42因为他们无力偿还，债主就开恩免了他们两个人的债。这两个人那一个更爱他呢？
43西门回答说：我想是那多得恩免的人。耶稣说：你断的不错。
44于是转过来向着那女人，便对西门说：你看见这女人么？我进了你的家，你没有给我水洗脚；但这女人用眼泪湿了我的脚，用头发擦干。
45你没有与我亲嘴；但这女人从我进来的时候就不住的用嘴亲我的脚。
46你没有用油抹我的头；但这女人用香膏抹我的脚。
47所以我告诉你，他许多的罪都赦免了，因为他的爱多；但那赦免少的，他的爱就少。
48于是对那女人说：你的罪赦免了。
49同席的人心里说：这是甚么人，竟赦免人的罪呢？
50耶稣对那女人说：你的信救了你；平平安安的回去罢！
信息分享
耶稣所讲的比喻往往很贴近现实，故此，不难将它们转移到现今的处境，而其真实的程度，就仿如发生在我们眼前一样。
耶稣向西门所讲的比喻包含了三个人物：一个债主和两个欠债的人，其中一个欠债较多，一个欠得较少，但两人都同样是无力偿还债项。
试想想，当两人来到债主面前，承认自己无力还债，却竟然听到债主对他们说：「既然如此，我就免了你们的债吧！」他们两人将会是何等的喜出望外！故事的结局实在是太出人意表！
然而，比喻还有下文，就是如何将它应用在生活之中。基督问作主人的西门说：「你想，这两个欠债的人，哪一个会更爱那名债主呢？」西门回答说：「当然是欠他更多的那个人。」耶稣接着说：「西门，你看见这女人么？她因为得着了赦罪的喜乐，所以她内心充满了对我的爱；反之，你却并未真正体会这喜乐，因为你还未察觉自己有罪，不觉得自己需要寻求赦免。你其实像她一样都是罪人，但她已获得赦罪，而你呢？你为何不寻求赦免呢？」
我们不知道西门听完这番说话之后，会有何反应；他可能要经过一段时间，才能克服自大的心理，寻求救主的赦免。然而，只要祂向主祈求，他就必定获得主的赦免。
你已寻求救主的赦免了吗？若还没有，何不立即祈求呢？只要你求，就必获得赦罪的喜乐。
WILL THE REAL SINNER PLEASE STAND UP?
Luke 7: 36 - 50
36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat.
37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil,
38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.
39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
40 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”
So he said, “Teacher, say it.”
41 “There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
42 And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?”
43 Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.”
And He said to him, “You have rightly judged.”
44 Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head.
45 You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in.
46 You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil.
47 Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
48 Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
50 Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
Message
These parables are so true to life that it would not be difficult to transfer them to this year and to our place of living. We can almost see them being acted out in front of us.
In the story we have just read there are three people. Two are in debt to the third. One owes a little, the other owes a lot. But both had nothing with which to pay their debts.
Can you imagine the scene as these two men come confessing that they cannot pay a penny and their tremendous joy when the man says, 'It's quite all right, I will forgive both of you'? What a surprising end to the story!
But it is not really the end. There is the application. Christ asked this question: 'Which man would love him the most?' His host, Simon, said, 'The one who owed the most'. Then Jesus went on, 'Do you see this woman Simon? She loves me because she knows the joy of sins forgiven. You don't really know that joy, Simon, because you don't realise your need. You are a sinner just like she is, but she has been forgiven. Why don't you ask for forgiveness too?'
We are not told what happened to Simon. He would have to overcome a lot of pride to seek the Saviour's forgiveness. But if he asked for it, he would have been immediately forgiven.
Have you asked for the forgiveness of your sins? If not, why not ask Christ to forgive you today?