In doing so, Jesus hopes Simon will recognize his error and empathize more fully with the sinful woman as she rejoices in the forgiveness of her overpowering debt.
To castigate Simon’s lack of charity and to highlight why Jesus’s forgiveness of the woman meant more to her than the same forgiveness might mean to Simon, Jesus tells the parable of two debtors. 1 Jesus shares this parable with Simon the Pharisee, who had expressed distaste for Jesus’s having his feet washed by a sinful woman. These two contrasted servants represent the readers or listeners. The three characters are (1) a lord or master, or in this instance a creditor, who represents the Lord (2) a servant in debt to the lord for 500 denarii and (3) another servant in debt for 50 denarii. This is a three-point parable, with three main characters, each representing a lesson to derive from the story. The parable of the two debtors in Luke 7:40–43 poses a scenario of contrast between two servants, each in debt to a creditor. Though we cannot with accuracy make the claim that a Roman denarius was always the daily wage, we can determine that the debtors of Jesus’s parable owed something on the order of a year’s worth of wages and ten years’ worth of wages. Abstract: This note provides a brief overview of Roman economic history and currency in order to throw light on the value and significance of the two debts illustratively used by Jesus in his parable to Simon the Pharisee. Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon - 2015.The Ultimate Egypt – Interpreter Foundation Tour.
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