The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan 1689

dress she goes to Simon’s house, where she finds Jesus sat at dinner. So
she gets behind him, and weeps, and drops her tears upon his feet like
rain, and washes them, and wipes them with the hair of her head. She
also kissed his feet with her lips, and anointed them with ointment.
When Simon the Pharisee perceived what the woman did, and being
ignorant of what it was to be forgiven much (for he never was forgiven
more than fifty pence), he began to think within himself, that he had
been mistaken about Jesus Christ, because he suffered such a sinner as
this woman was, to touch him. Surely, quoth he, this man, if he were a
prophet, would not let this woman come near him, for she is a townsinner
(so ignorant are all self-righteous men of the way of Christ with
sinners.) But lest Mary should be discouraged with some clownish
carriage of this Pharisee and so desert her good beginnings, and her
new steps which she now had begun to take towards eternal life, Jesus
began thus with Simon. “Simon,” saith he, “I have somewhat to say unto
thee. And he saith, Master, say on. There was,” said Jesus, “a certain
creditor had two debtors; the one owed five hundred pence, and the
other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them
both. Tell me therefore which of them will love him most? Simon
answered and said, I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. And he
said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. And he turned to the woman,
and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house,
thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with
tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no
kiss: but this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss
my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but this woman hath
anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins
which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but to whom little is
forgiven, the same loveth little. And he said unto her, Thy sins are
forgiven;” Luke vii. 36–50.
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