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Luke 18:9-14
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Jesus’ Parable of Divine
Acceptance & Rejection
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable
“God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.”
For I tell you, everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled.
He told this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves that they were righteous … “I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes of all that I get.”
Luke 19:8 NIV But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
The Tax-gatherer was unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven. Luke 18:13
I tell you this: the one who humbles himself shall be exalted.
Unwilling to lift his eyes to heaven, he was beating his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me, the sinner!” Luke 18:13 (NAS)
Be merciful to me!
ilaskomai to be merciful,
to pardon
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other.