Luke 18:9-14

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Jesus’ Parable of Divine

Acceptance & Rejection

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable

“God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.”

For I tell you, everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled.

He told this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves that they were righteous … “I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes of all that I get.”

Luke 19:8 NIV But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."

The Tax-gatherer was unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven. Luke 18:13

I tell you this: the one who humbles himself shall be exalted.

Unwilling to lift his eyes to heaven, he was beating his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me, the sinner!” Luke 18:13 (NAS)

Be merciful to me!

ilaskomai to be merciful,

to pardon

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other.