The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican
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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican is a parable of Jesus recounted in Luke 18:9-14. This parable is a striking illustration of the closedmindedness of the educated liberal elite.
The parable tells of two people who came to the Temple to pray: a Pharisee and a publican[1].
The Pharisee's prayer was loaded with pride, telling God how good he was (and that he was far better than the publican next to him). The publican, on the other hand, could not even look up to God, but simply asked mercy. Jesus replied that the publican's shame at his own sin is held higher than the Pharisee's gratitude for his own virtue.
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- ↑ The Roman publicanus was a tax-gatherer; other Bible translations call him a tax collector rather than a publican. In any event they were highly despised in Jesus' day, especially those who were Jewish as they were considered turncoats. (Matthew, one of the 12 Apostles and one of the four authors of the Gospel accounts, was Jewish and a former tax collector.)
