Luke 7:43

Luke 7:43. I suppose. We are to understand, ‘that is, if they feel as they ought.'

To whom he forgave the most. From this correct answer a false conclusion has often been drawn, oftener in thought and deed than in word. Men sometimes find in it an encouragement to sin, on the theory that the greater their present sin, the greater their future love. But the sense of sin is represented by the debt, and the question does not necessarily mean: which will be the better Christian? but rather, which will be the more affectionate, self-sacrificing in outward manifestations of gratitude?