When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is — a sinner.”
In context
37And a woman of that town, a sinner, learned that he was dining at the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of perfume, 38and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed them again and again, and anointed them with the perfume. 39When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is — a sinner.” 40Jesus spoke up: “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Speak, Teacher,” he replied. 41“Two men were in debt to a moneylender. One owed five hundred denarii, the other fifty.