“A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?” Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”(Luke 7:41-43 ESV)
Having set himself up to have to answer Jesus' question, Simon now is forced to answer the question correctly. It is such an easy answer, he would look totally foolish to not answer correctly. The piercing word for him is in the last phrase: He had judged correctly. That is becasue he had been judging the repentant woman and Jesus for their behavior. He knew the right answer, but he was not doing the right thing.
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