Section 5
indicates that love to the Savior is the issue, not the cause, of His forgiveness.
In verses 44 through 46 the Lord went on to say to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house; you did not give Me water for My feet, but this woman has wet My feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair. You did not give Me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing My feet affectionately. You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with ointment." The Savior's word in these verses in dicates that Simon should take the woman as an example and learn of her.
In verse 47 the Lord said, "For this reason I say to you, her sins which are many have been forgiven, because she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, he loves little." The great love of the woman was a proof that her many sins had been forgiven. Simon's little love testified that he had experienced forgiveness only a little.
THE INCARNATION OF THE FORGIVING GOD
In verse 48 the Man-Savior said to the woman, "Your sins have been forgiven." Both this case and the case of the widow's son in Nain