He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: \u2018Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, \u201cGod, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income.\u201d But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, \u201cGod, be merciful to me, a sinner!\u201d I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other; for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: \u2018Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, \u201cGod, I thank you that I am not like other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-parable-of-the-pharisee-and-the-tax-collector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}