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LUKE 7:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 7:35Luke 7:37
“And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.”
When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table — the dinner at the Pharisee's house is the setting for the anointing by the sinful woman. Jesus accepts the invitation — he eats with Pharisees as well as tax collectors. The reclining at table is the Roman dining posture — reclining on a couch with feet extending away from the low table.

Church Fathers on Luke 7:36

Having said just before, And the people that heard him justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John the same Evangelist builds up in deed what he had proposed in word, namely, wisdom justified by the righteous and the penitent, saying, And one of the Pharisees desired him, &c.

Bede · 8th century

This account is full of precious instruction. For there are very many who justify themselves, being puffed up with the dreamings of an idle fancy, who before the time of Judgment comes, separate themselves as lambs from the herds, not willing even to join in eating with the many, and hardly with those who go not to extremes, but keep the middle path in life. St. Luke, the physician of souls rather than of bodies, represents therefore our Lord and Savior most mercifully…

Gregory of Nyssa · 4th century

A woman of corrupt life, but testifying her faithful affection, comes to Christ, as having power to release her from every fault, and to grant her pardon for the crimes she had committed. For it follows, And behold a woman in the city which was a sinner brought an alabaster box of ointment.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century
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