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9\u00a0<\/sup>To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:<\/span> 10\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cTwo men went up to the temple to pray,one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.<\/span><\/span> 11\u00a0<\/sup>The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: \u2018God, I thank you that I am not like other people\u2014robbers, evildoers, adulterers\u2014or even like this tax collector.<\/span><\/span> 12\u00a0<\/sup>I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 13\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cBut the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, \u2018God, have mercy on me, a sinner.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 14\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cI tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The parable of the Pharisee and Tax collector is a simple lesson in humility and God’s grace. No one can expect the forgiveness of God if they believe themselves already righteous. They deceive themselves. One’s salvation cannot be merely obtained by following rituals and rules. They must have a repentant and humble heart. This is what the Lord spoke through Ezekiel,<\/p>\n 26\u00a0<\/sup>And I will give you\u00a0a new heart, and\u00a0a new spirit I will put within you.\u00a0And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector 9\u00a0To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10\u00a0\u201cTwo men went up to the temple to pray,one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11\u00a0The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: \u2018God, I thank … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12227,"featured_media":14768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2280],"tags":[1900,7265,2344,7268,7266,7525,7524,7267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Parable about the Pharisee and the tax collector is only in Luke’s gospel. Much of chapters 17 and 18 are not just exclusive to Luke but they also contain verbiage that can only be found in Luke’s one personal style of writing. That means that these large Lukan sections are purposefully some of Luke’s own handy work and not direct copies of other texts. Though, it’s incredibly likely that there was still an underlying text from which Luke copied from, but here Luke makes them his own.<\/p>\n
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