To
some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked
down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 'Two men went
up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank
you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or
even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth
of all I get.'
'But
the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to
heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God,
have mercy on me, a sinner.'
'I
tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified
before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he
who humbles himself will be exalted.'
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