<p>7:41<i> A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty</i>- The Lord saw the hypocritical Pharisee Simon as being a man forgiven fifty pence, who therefore loved Him (Lk. 7:41). This shows the generous way in which the Lord reads people. In the same chapter, the Lord recognised that John the Baptist had suffered a crisis of faith. But He tells the crowd that John wasn&rsquo;t a reed shaken with the wind, an unstable believer (Lk. 7:24 cp. Is. 7:2), but the greatest of God&rsquo;s servants; He overlooked the temporary failure, and judged the overall spirit of John.</p>