Justified God... that is, praised the justice of God, feared and worshipped God, as just and merciful.
7:30. But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.
7:31. And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?
7:32. They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.
7:33. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say: He hath a devil.
7:34. The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.
7:35. And wisdom is justified by all her children.
7:36. And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went into the house of the Pharisee and sat down to meat.
One of the Pharisees: that is, Simon.
7:37. And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.