Detailed Analysis of the Narrative Expository Sermon: Luke 7:36-50

This assignment presents an analysis of a narrative expository sermon based on Luke 7:36-50, a passage from the Bible. The essay explores the context of the scripture, focusing on the encounter between Jesus, Simon the Pharisee, and a sinful woman. The analysis delves into the themes of forgiveness, faith, and the teachings of Jesus, highlighting how Jesus emphasizes the importance of forgiveness and compassion. The student examines the interactions between the characters, Simon's judgmental attitude, and the woman's demonstration of repentance and love. The essay also includes references to scholarly articles and books related to the scripture and its interpretation.

Running Head: Narrative Expository Sermon.
Narrative Expository Sermon.
Name of the Student:
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Luke 7:36-50
In the above scripture from the Bible reflects on the scripture of Luke 7: 36-50 that states
where Jesus the Messiah of God was in the presence of some common people, tax collectors,
scribes and Pharisee (Mouton 2013). There was a Pharisee named Simon who had invited Jesus
to come to his place for a meal. There has never been an instance in the Gospel where Jesus had
failed or let anyone down. In the same town here was a women who had lived a sinful life. As
the Gospel teaches us there has been no such times where Jesus had failed to keep any promise
of God. He came to earth to be a witness and a miracle for his Abba Father’s love and teach to
forgive others (Pearlman 2016).
In the same town were Jesus went to preach, Simon had invited him for dinner. When he
sat to have his meal a women from the same town lived a sinful life and came up to Jesus. He got
the news from the people that Jesus was present in Simon’s house so she bought an alabaster jar
of perfume and came and stood behind Jesus. She touched her feet and started crying and wetting
his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with her long cascading hair and kiss his feet as a mark
of respect and repenting for her sins. Then she poured perfume on his feet. Observing all these
the Pharisee told himself that if Jesus was a true prophet he would had known who was touching
his feet and what kind of a sinful life she lived (Phanon 2016)
For Jesus it was very important to forgive as he came into this world with a mission to
preach the word of God and to forgive the sinners and heal them by coming out of their sinful
life. Our Lord is a loving master and accepts each and every human being without any
discrimination and classifying their dominance. His name is associated with Love, Peace,
Miracle and Healing. The healing scriptures from the Bible is full of parables and stories which

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helps the individual to read the daily Gospel as it Heals us and understand what Lord Jesus
wanted to say about this Abba Father and his internal Salvation. If we learn how to caste our
burdens on Him and share our pains and suffering then He is the only way who assist us to come
close to him. He is the only ray of light that frees us from our sin when we surrender ourselves to
Him. Making confession releases us from our sins and makes our heart pure and loving (Clifton
2014).
From the scripture we see that Simon speaks to himself about the women and Jesus
because he thinks that as a preacher Jesus could not judge who he allowed to wipe his feet with
perfume. Jesus in reply to Simon said about two men who owed money to a single moneylender.
The first person owed him five hundred silver coins and the second person owed him fifty silver
coins. But as a consequence none could return him back their debts but the moneylenders had
forgiven them both and cancelled their debts. Now Jesus questioned Simon who would the two
people love and be graceful to, to this Simon answered that the men would love the person who
had lived and forgave them more. Jesus here wanted to say that forgives is very important for
each individual. No matter how big our issues stands, no matter how big our grudge is against
anyone or if anyone has caused us harm, we as Christians should always forgive. Forgiveness
brings us salvation and built an individual to have a strong faith in Jesus and makes us humble
(Rye and McCabe 2014).
With the example of the women in the scripture Jesus explained Simon how this women
washed his feet with her tears and dried it with her hair whereas Simon had only offered him
water for his feet. Simon did not greet Jesus with a kiss but the women had kissed his feet as a
mark of respect. The great love that the women has shown proves that many of her sins are
forgiven that day itself because the one who had received more forgiveness can only love more

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but the one who is forgiven less, loves less. Jesus conveys to the women that her sins are
forgiven. The people who were present around the table were astonished and asked each other
about the man who forgive sins. The faith of the woman had saved her and she went in peace
(Bock and Simpson 2017).
Reference
Bock, Darrell L., and Benjamin I. Simpson. Jesus according to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait
from the Gospels. Baker Academic, 2017.
Clifton, James. "Modes of Scriptural Illustration: The Beatitudes in the Late Sixteenth Century."
In Imago Exegetica, pp. 545-578. Brill, 2014.
Mouton, Elna. "“What is a woman that you are mindful of her?” Aspects of irony and honour in
Luke 7: 36-50." NGTT| Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif 54, no. Supp 2 (2013):
221-231.
Pearlman, Myer. THROUGH THE BIBLE BOOK BY BOOK: New Testament. Gospel
Publishing House, 2016.
Phanon, Yuri. "Is She a Sinful Woman or a Forgiven Woman? An Exegesis of Luke 7: 36-50
Part I." AJPS 19, no. 1 (2016): 59-71.
Rye, Mark S., and Cara F. McCabe. "Religion and forgiveness of others." In Religion and
spirituality across cultures, pp. 303-318. Springer, Dordrecht, 2014.