![]() ![]() When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. ![]() For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” ( P) The Little Children and Jesus ( Q)ġ5 People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast ( N) and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ ( O)ġ4 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. 12 I fast ( L) twice a week and give a tenth ( M) of all I get.’ġ3 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself ( K) and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even like this tax collector. However, when the Son of Man ( F) comes, ( G) will he find faith on the earth?” The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collectorĩ To some who were confident of their own righteousness ( H) and looked down on everyone else, ( I) Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, ( J) one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out ( E) to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” ( C)Ħ And the Lord ( D) said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice ( B) against my adversary.’Ĥ “For some time he refused. ( A) 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. ![]()
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