Bible In A Year - Luke

Worshiping God by Sitting at Jesus’ Feet

Our Father in heaven, we would dare to have our hearts aligned with the psalmist who said oh come Let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our God our maker. For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Lord we are amazed that you would Be our God that you would consider us. You think of the scripture what is man that thou art mindful of him. That you would think upon us and that you would so care and so be so moved for us that You would in your mercy reach down and Save us from the horrible pit and from the miry clay and set our feet upon a rock.

You would reveal to us your son Jesus Christ So that we could be rescued so that we could be Purchased with the precious the valuable blood of Christ your son. We're grateful this morning that you've given us another opportunity to gather in this place to worship you.

To learn of you to glorify you. And pray that our hearts may be ready even now as we sit here and think about how great you are. And how wonderful the gift of salvation is that you've given to us for the unspeakable Gift of your son Lord for the way that you so care for us that you even have given us your word to study.

And so that it might be the lamp under our feet and the light unto our path. So God, please teach us Help us to think of right this morning. To block out that which has crowded our lives this week and Maybe pressing upon us in such a way that it is causing a diversion where we should be focused on Christ.

And focused on our great God. Help us to worship and to learn that We might be more pleasing in your sight Lord in the in such a fashion that we're used in such a way That Christ would be exalted in our lives.

Bless us now as only you can give us ears to hear and hearts to receive the word in Jesus name. Amen as a young child. And in into my early teenage years. Believe it or not. I know that I gave my mom much grief.

I Was an immature child in such a way that I things didn't connect with me. I didn't see the whole picture. I Didn't understand what my mom was going through. In the 60s and early 70s being a single parent.

Going to work coming home. At one point I remember her making like $90 a week. No child support and there I am doing my thing. And I just didn't. I didn't identify I didn't understand and I was Immature.

I was ignorant and really I was kind of busy With the things that I want to do, especially as a young teenager and into high school. I was so busy that I didn't appreciate What my mom was doing all those years until one I became a parent myself but particularly when the Lord saved me and gave me an understanding of what it means to truly look at other people and Have compassion and care and you're probably saying well what Dave why are you saying that in the Church of Christ?

Sometimes We're either immature as believers. We're out of touch as children of God. We're so busy doing the things that we think we ought to be doing. That we don't really Appreciate The Lord as much as we should we.

We go about doing all this work for the work's sake. So that the work is kind of build it, you know looked at and the horn is tooted. About what great things that we're doing but we can miss as Martha.

Did I think in a measure not that what she was doing was wrong? It's bring that's brought out in this book in chapter 10 at the end of chapter 10 that She was just so cumbered about with all the things of life that she was doing.

She I just had to get that that meal together in the house ready and all of it was good. And all of it was proper, but here the Lord Jesus is in her house. And she's missing that opportunity to sit at his feet and To learn because who knows how long he'll be there and how long she'll have that opportunity that means of grace.

And I'm not scolding us. I'm Just reminding us That it is so easy To be a Christian and not easy to be a Christian. I mean by the grace of God we can do what we do, but it's so easy as believers To go about doing good to go about living as we should for the glory of Christ.

To preach the gospel to work in the church to roll up our sleeves but we forget to sit at Jesus feet we forget to to draw an eye and Have a desire to draw close to the Lord and we can miss The blessedness of that sweet communion and fellowship and we can read the New Testament.

We can see what Jesus did and we can say oh, that's just another time or you know that is great. And let's go on doing what we're doing. And I so want us to not only be obedient to the Lord in Studying his word not only to get an overview of this book and the other books that we're looking at not not only to to Understand how it kind of all fits together.

But my my desire as a as a teacher of the of the Word of God With my brothers and sisters in Christ is for us to be so Captivated so stirred in our hearts when we read and look through a book like this and we can't of course cover everything and when we look at the intent that Luke had in this book of His historical Biography so to speak of Christ.

That as we see what Jesus is doing and how he what his ministry is what his attitude is. How he's identifying with people that it might not just be an academic exercise where we say oh, yes, we understand that Jesus did this and he did this and he did this and he did this but that is.

And he is our Savior and we walk with him and we fellowship and desire to fellowship with him every day and he thinks the same towards us as he thinks and thought and acted and Identified with those on the pages of the book.

Our God is a God who is a present help in time of trouble and our God loves us. Even now as we sit here and as we look at this book, and I know this is a long introduction but I Can't even put in words because I'm an expert at this.

How I can get so busy and miss what's so vital and I remember I remember probably in my mid To late 20s. I sat down with my mom for the first time and I told her how much I appreciated what she had done For me.

I mean it was like I it clicked with me. What she what what what she had gone through and I kind of identified because now I was a parent and God had saved me. And I knew what love and compassion and pity was and caring for for my children.

I just don't want us to miss Being able to sit at Jesus feet this morning and just look at Our great Savior our loving God who cares for us and as Luke writes This book his theme is Jesus Christ the Son of Man.

We've looked in Matthew that Jesus Jesus is the promised Messiah. That was the theme there the promised Messiah and King and mark. He is the suffering servant in Luke. He is the Son of Man and John will bring out that he is the Son of God and whoever believes upon him Might have life through his name Luke.

Though his theme is the Son of Man you have a sheet and if you don't I think there's a few left on the table Over there, but Luke is the author not much is known about him. He is a Gentile Paul seems to confirm this in in the book of Colossians.

And that would make Luke the only Gentile to pen any books of Scripture. He was a frequent companion of the Apostle Paul. He was it's apparent that he was in inseparable from Paul from the time of his Macedonian Vision in Acts chapter 16 right up to Paul's martyrdom in in 2nd Timothy chapter 4 Where Paul says only Luke is with me others have forsaken him, but Luke is with me he was he.

He knew the the Apostle Paul and and what's interesting about? About the the writing of Luke is That of course he he certainly wrote in his own style. He was an astute Observer of everything that was around him or the facts that he received from other people.

He was a careful thinker and This is a historian's view of the Lord Jesus's life and ministry. He is an effective Biographer using as a biographer would good sources of input interviewing people who had first-hand accounts who were the eyewitnesses and Because he used eyewitnesses and if you turn to chapter 1 you'll see this and we'll get there in just the first few verses.

It is it is apparent to see that Luke himself most likely he was not an eyewitness. But he used the eyewitness accounts to write His record of the of the Apostle of the Lord Jesus and of course through the early church and In the book of Acts and in the ministry of the Apostle Paul but Luke is giving a Connected orderly narrative of the life of Jesus as seen by other eyewitnesses.

His opening verses in this in this gospel describe in detail How he gathered his materials and why he decided to compose his biography told why he was doing. What's the purpose behind all this. You you will see and if you study even further that he writes using the most Sophisticated literate literary Greek and he was a careful researcher and an accurate historian.

He opens the book and he says I'm reading the King James for as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a Declaration of those things which are most surely believe among us. So there's there's folks that have have put it to their mind that they're going to Declare write records of the things that we believe he says even as they delivered them to us Which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, so he's receiving this information from those who were eyewitnesses.

He says in verse 3 it seemed good to me also Having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write under thee in order most excellent Theophilus. I'll kind of get back to that in just a second.

And here's his purpose that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed. Luke's purpose the writing the book is that there there may be an accurate account an Orderly account a Chronological account although not everything in the book goes chronologically, but it's pretty much.

He gives the most the fullest Record of The ministry of the Lord Jesus in his humanity the Son of Man. Giving almost half of his gospel is is Is new additional information than the other Gospels? He has countless and in the notes.

You'll see it. There's Different miracles or there's discourses or sayings that no one else wrote about Question he was a doctor. Yes a physician Luke Luke the physician and even in bringing in bringing that out.

You'll see that there's accounts that he when he describes Things he brings that out. He has the the medical physical aspect of illnesses. He's the only one who Writes of in the Garden of Gethsemane the the sweat the sweat drops of blood.

He's the only one who records that and also you remember what happened in the Garden of Gethsemane. What miracle took place there? The ear right Malchus's ear gets cut off by Peter and the Lord Jesus as it says and it almost give this this indication for remember study in the past that That it wasn't like Jesus took to pick the ear up and put it back on and kind of fixed it it was as if it was recreated when he touched it was a miracle his ear came back and and He was restored whole but we have accounts like that with fevers and different descriptions that Luke does bring this out as far as his His met his medical background, but his desire is That he's writing these things so there can be a certainty.

It reminds me of John who does the same thing? You know, I remember in John chapter 19, I think it's when when he's recording about the crucifixion John goes to great lengths and he says This record is true because basically I was there and I was an eyewitness and I'm writing it so that you know.

And then his purpose is The writing about Jesus so that you might believe upon him and have life through his name. But this is this is those were eyewitnesses accounts. But Luke is taking eyewitness accounts and he's writing them down very carefully.

So that we will have them and God recorded them for us so that we would have them and we could also Stand upon the foundation of the truth that is given to us. I mentioned in in verse 3 that he wrote this unto this Person named Theophilus if you turn to Acts chapter 1 hold your place in Luke Acts chapter 1 verse first.

The former treatise or the former account Have I made? That referring back same author Luke that referring back to the gospel of Luke he says the former treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began to do and teach and Then he goes on with the history of the early church.

So you will see that Luke is is got a full account and it begins within in Luke chapter 1 with with the birth and the ministry of John the Baptist and then Jesus's birth and he goes into great lengths about the birth there and in some Instances there more than any of the other writers and then the life of Jesus that his ministry his all that he went going about doing good his death his burial his resurrection and Then when he writes the book of Acts, it's just a continuation of this historical biography of everything that's that took place not only of Jesus, but then he gets into the early church and Then he gets in the Apostle Paul's ministry until his martyrdom.

I mean a full account and it's wonderful that the Lord has given but Luke is Part one acts is part two. So just kind of make sure that you always make that connection and putting them together this book.

The gospel of the Son of Man and Luke portrays Christ in his fullest humanity. By devoting more of his writings to Christ's feelings his humanity and he emphasizes the sympathy of Christ. The compassion of Christ the pity of our Lord in his sympathetic attitude toward the poor and the lowly and the women and the outcasts of society and That is in contrast To who who in the book here is dog in him or in the in all the Gospels?

Who is it that is coming after and attacking Christ. The Pharisees write these religious leaders? And their position is they're the they're the. They're the elite. They're the cream of the crop. They're the ones who won't identify with these filthy sinners.

With these if Jesus if you had known what kind of a woman she was you would not be letting her Wash your feet with her tears and the hairs of her head you if you knew what she was like. And you can just you can just see it in the in the mind in the heart of Christ.

I know exactly what she's like and the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. That's my purpose for coming. Was for for sinners like her. I mean he eats with the publicans and sinners and you can just hear the tone of their voice in the sarcasm in the in the pride in the in the arrogance that's coming forth from in their murmuring in there and they're Complaining Jesus heal somebody on the Sabbath day, and it's me.

That's what they're always doing. They're always after him and He of course is showing them what the true God of heaven and earth is really like. Not like them. Who are? Uncompassionate uncaring. Distant from people who are in need that I mean they go to the to the uppity ups the mucky mucks in the society.

That's the people that they're gonna. They're gonna deal with they want the position they want the prominence. They they want to they want to be able to have the horn blown and tooted and and everybody kind of look at them and here they come with their pomp and with their robes and and and with their position and Jesus comes as the Son of Man.

He comes to love and he comes to have pity upon and he comes to Put feet To mercy and pity. That's just a way that I can kind of put it put make it real that he is going to identify as Coming in the flesh as the Son of Man as taking upon sinful flesh and Identifying with us as we looked at last time where Jesus was hungry and Jesus wept and Jesus Grew tired and he slept like everybody else had to sleep and he ate like everybody else had to eat in any any identified with humankind.

Luke is recording His sympathetic attitude his identifying with the sorrow and the plight of sinful man. Sinful man with all of the consequences of sin with death with sickness with Separation from God with the blind and the lame and the paralytic and the lepers and all of that Jesus identifies with sinful humanity so that he can Carry our sorrows.

You remember the Prophet Isaiah said surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Jesus comes to sinners. He cares about sinners and the in the in the lowly and the in the outcasts that the religious leaders could care less about.

And he I love this he touches them. I Mean they would you remember in chapter 10 if we can get here the story of the Good Samaritan I mean the the Levite and the the religious leaders. They see this man who's just about dead laying on the side of the road and you know, what?

We as observers of the of the law cannot touch Someone who may be about to die. We might defile ourselves and we won't be able to go to church on Sunday. Basically is you know, we're we're not going to be able to go do what we want to do and that's what I'm talking about this legalistic harsh Critical bit, you know this this arrogant pride religious pride.

We got to be careful. We really really need to be careful because because we as believers Can do the same thing we can we can enter into the same plight? Or the same attitude there to where there'll be people that we don't want to identify with and We don't want to talk to and we don't want to touch and we don't want to invite over our house.

We don't want to go anywhere with. Because it's just you know, we're gonna stay with our own little clan we're gonna be with our own little group and it's gonna be we're not going to step out of the comfort zone and We get busy and we get focused and we're doing the things that need to be done.

But what else why why are we taught why is it that not only not only for our Salvation not only that the truth of what it means to be saved by such a great God and have such a great Savior as Jesus Christ, but are we not learning of him so that we might walk like him?

I mean John said, you know that that's the desire that we that we ought to those if we believe upon him. We ought to walk like him and we ought to follow. Are we not disciples? Followers and we ought to follow in his footsteps and The Pharisees are ones who won't touch Jesus will touch then we ought to touch and we ought to come alongside of and we ought to love those who are the unlovable and the outcasts and the and the ones who nobody else will will will deal with and.

And the Lord help us to do that and the Lord forgive us for not doing that. I mean, I I'm an expert Like I said when it comes not to Scripture and all there is to know about Scripture but I'm an expert on what God did in my in my life and and I'm an expert about my sin and my lack of compassion and pity and mercy.

In the times where I know that I had the opportunity and I could have reached Down and touch someone's life and help them and in pity gone come alongside them. And I did not and God forgives and and the slate is wiped clean when we confess it and forsake it and and repent.

And thank God for the opportunities when we have helped other people by the by the moving of God upon our hearts so to speak by the by the the the Compassion and the love that God gives us for other people and and here's a key Deb.

And I were just talking about this this morning we Understand what God did for us and because we know how God saved us and God accepts us in Christ Jesus and God did pull us out of the the muck of sin and cleaned us and set us upon a rock a solid eternal foundation where we are the children of God forever.

And If we don't think about what God has done for us. It's going to be easy for us to close the eyes or to look the other way when there is need all around us. We have this Gospel where Jesus is shown in contrast That he blows the doors off the Pharisees so to speak when it comes to showing what true compassion and care is Really all about and we see that over and over again and as Luke is expressing The Events recorded in the gospel that he's received from eyewitnesses we see that it just keeps unfolding and it's just a wonderful account and a wonderful record of How Jesus would identify?

With our griefs and sorrows carry them and Accomplish the work of salvation and Luke does this by Repeatingly in the book giving accounts of Gentiles Samaritans the downcast the outcast the the the lowly.

How those people found grace in the eyes of Jesus? Jesus Christ is the only answer to the needs and the hopes of the human race. Therefore Luke portrays him as the Son of Man who came to seek and to save that which was lost.

The Consolation of Israel in Simeon’s Song

Let us look at some of the accounts in this book first to kind of tie the Old Testament With the new. I'd like for you to turn to chapter 2 and look at this account when Mary and Joseph I Think it's in sorry.

It might be in three. Yes chapter. No, it is 2. 2 is very long, that's right. It's in chapter 2 when Mary and Joseph bring Jesus into the temple and There is a gentleman there named Simeon verse 25 a just man and devout waiting for the consolation of Israel and The Holy Spirit was upon him.

Here is one who's waiting for the consolation awaiting for the Messiah to come who would bring consolation or comfort to Israel. He longed For deliverance he longed for the Messiah to come in the Holy Spirit revealed to him in verse 26.

It was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death Before he had seen the Lord's Christ, so he would not die until he had seen the Messiah. The Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament the one who would come to deliver his people and He comes into the temple in verse 27 When the parents were bringing the child Jesus to do for him after the custom of the law and it says in verse 28.

Then took he. Simon took him Jesus up in his arms and he blessed God and he said Lord Now let us thou thy servant depart in peace According to thy word for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. What a wonderful text what a wonderful declaration here.

Notice what Simeon? What is Simeon holding in his hands? Well? He's. He's not holding in his hands a creed. He's not holding in his hands a piece of paper About his church membership or a doctrinal statement or a program or a plan of salvation.

He's holding a person in his hand. He's holding the person in his hand. He's holding God in the flesh in his very hands, and he's saying that mine eyes have seen God's salvation. Mine eyes have seen the one that the Holy Spirit told that I would see and he would reveal it to me the Consolation of Israel the Messiah, and he says in verse 29 Lord now Let me depart your your servant depart in peace according to your words because I've seen him.

He wouldn't die until he's seen him and really if you think about this. I've I've preached this at a Nursing home as a message that no one is able to die unless they first seen the Messiah. They've seen Christ.

And he's seen him. This one that's been foretold of this one that in Luke brings it out in this book that not only is Jesus Christ the Savior of the Jews but he's also the Savior of the Gentiles of And that the gospel is to come to all nations and that they can receive it and they can be saved also.

We see that in In chapter 2 and in verse in the note. You'll see that someplace I think it's near the end of the sheet where it brings out those verses. But what I'd like to do is to kind of look at some of the examples of Christ ministry and what he does and How he showed, you know how Luke records that he shows himself to be the Son of Man who came For the outcasts of society and first let's turn let's turn to chapter 5.

You remember this story that there is this paralyzed man in chapter 5 and his friends bring him to Jesus to be healed and Because of the multitude in verse 19 They will go up on the housetop and they take the tiles off to load let him down upon his bed.

And when Jesus saw their faith in verse 20, he said unto him man My sins are forgiven me and here they come Verse 21 and you could just whenever I read this verse I always go and the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason saying who is this which speaks blasphemy?

Here he is again in this word their reasoning there they're deliberating and Casting this in their mind. They're musing about this. They're just thinking they didn't say this. They're thinking who is this who speaks blasphemies who can forgive sins, but God alone as a true statement only God alone can forgive sins.

Jesus has just said to the man who's got a physical issue Man, your sins are forgiven you. Jesus verse 22 perceives their thoughts and don't we need to be careful. The Lord knows our thoughts. This isn't spoken openly.

He knows their thoughts and he answers them. What reason you in your hearts or in your thoughts or in your mind? Whether is easier to say thy sins be forgiven the order say rise up and walk. But that you may know that the Son of Man has power upon earth to forgive sins.

He says unto the sick of the palsy of the paralyzed man the paralytic man I say unto you arise and take up your bed your couch and go To your into your house. What basically Jesus is saying here? Yes, anybody anybody can say your sins are forgiven.

I was raised in a church. I went to church when I was younger that the that the religious men in the church. They would. They would absolve you you could go into the confessional and they would say you're see if you go do this.

Everything is is gonna be okay with your sins and then you Can go on and live your life as you always have a lot of change no repentance. And you know what? I'm talking about. You must believe you must have a heart that's ripped by God and changed.

Well Jesus is saying he says, you know, look. Which one is easier and think about it? Which one's easier you have somebody who's in front of you on a bed paralyzed. Which is easier to say your sins are forgiven or rise up take your bed and walk.

Which one? It's easy to say your sins are forgiven, right? Anybody can do that. But Jesus is saying to show that I have power. To show that I have the authority to show that I am the sovereign God. The one who has come to seek and to save that which is lost the one who has come not only to to heal but to spiritually heal he says Take up your bed and walk and the man does and it proves that not only not only is have the power to be able to Heal, but he also has the power and the authority to forgive sin.

He's God who's come to do that a wonderful a wonderful account, but you see, you know, here's all these people pressing in Can't even get in the door. I mean, it's it's this place is packed and This one is lower down.

I mean, can you see the Pharisees and scribes? Hey, you're ruining the house. You know get that get that man out of here you want get in line over here. But no he cares and he has he has compassion and he deals with with this man.

He deals with him such a way that the man immediately rises off and everybody rises up off his bed and everybody is amazed. At the power in this case here the power and the and the splendor of the Lord.

Compassion for the Widow, the Sinful Woman, and the Good Samaritan

Let's go to Let's go to chapter 7 in chapter 7 verse 12. Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city behold, there was a dead man carried out. The only son of his mother this woman had an only son. And she was a widow her husband's dead.

Also. This is this son was all she had left and Much people of the city was with her in verse 13 and when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto her weep not. I mean The Pharisees may not even have given this widow in this plight a Second look they probably just would have walked by her.

I mean, I mean just think of women in this time. We're we're not treated quite well in this culture and the Pharisees and the scribes I mean you you take a look at the way that that what they said. Oh, if you've known what kind of woman she was.

It's just just just no pity and no compassion, but Jesus sees. And he has Compassion and you remember when Mike was preaching once and he talked about how I think was about how Paul yearned in his bowels for the other believers and the Greek word has that that root in it that splank, you know, it's I Don't have it exactly right.

But but this word is like a Splank nidzo my in the Greek and it has to do with From the intestines or from the spleen and the Greeks what they that was the innermost being of the person. It was it was the all of the person and Jesus is Jesus.

This word is means he is yearning in his bowels or he is feeling compassion. He's feeling pity. He's being so moved with compassion that he's going to do something about it it's one thing to be compassionate and say that you are and say that your burden for the world and burden for the lost and burden for those who are Down-and-out, but it's another thing to do something about it and we see the Lord putting feet to mercy putting feet to pity and he he comes and again this He's in verse 14.

He's saying to her don't weep. Don't cry. I mean think of And hear his words. I Mean to you you read it and it's like and the Lord saw her and in compassion on his senator weep not and he became. You know, we're reading our daily reading.

We got to get through it and when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and senator weep not and he came and he touched the beer or the Coffin and they that bear him stood still and he said young man arise and he rises.

Oh, this is neat Jesus somebody rose from the dead, but we miss. He comes up to this woman who is the lowly the outcast of society and he comes alongside of her and he's and he's saying woman don't we I mean he's identifying with her grief and her sorrow and so much so that as the son of man He's going to do something about it.

He came and he touched the coffin. What were the scribes and Pharisees have done or not done? They wouldn't get anywhere near that coffin because what they would have been defiled polluted and they wouldn't been able to go Into the church service that day and do their duty.

But he touches the coffin and they that bear him stood still and he said young man I say unto the arise and he that was dead sat up and began to speak and he delivered him unto his mother. What pity and before I forget before I run out of time?

If you think of every instance in here when Jesus has this compassion this moving of his His bowels so to speak of his of his heart and his sympathy and his just to come alongside and to touch and to care for and to do something about it and to uplift and To raise this man from the dead.

Think of what he did for you and me brethren. Think of how he raised us from the dead and trespasses and sins. Think about all the times when when no one else cared. But as the great songwriter said no one ever cared for me like Jesus.

What love amazing love? Amazing pity to those who do not deserve this all we deserve is to be cast out of his presence really because of our rebellion and hatred toward God and Our past life if we look about how how we could could have.

We lived in our pharaoh citical attitude, didn't we? Look at others and we thought we were better than other people until God humbled us and showed us our great need of him. And I was thinking this too even in this case here.

Here's the God of the universe who's come and wrapped himself in flesh and he's he's going to deal with those that are in such a great plight as the consequence of sin and and He's unlike the other gods.

What are the other gods like the false gods? They're so distant. They're ogres. They're always demanding. There's no pity. It's you got to give and so the people are sacrificing their babies in there and they're cutting themselves with stones.

Trying to please this God who who is so far away. They're they're false God and never can be happy. They never know how much they need to do and They're trying to get to God and here God gets to us. God comes down and visitors visits us.

In our great need and he does something about our horrible condition. Let's move on to try to get a couple other ones in chapter 7 here. Also, you notice the story in verse 36 where the Pharisee asked Jesus to come over to his house.

And there's a woman in the city who was a sinner verse 37 when she knew that Jesus was eating with the Pharisee. She brings him this alabaster box of ointment. She goes to his feet she begins to weep and cry and she's washing his his feet with with her tears and wiping and Kept on wiping with the hairs of her head and she's kissing his feet.

Can you imagine? What the Pharisees were thinking about that? Jesus is letting a sinner touch him and kiss his feet and isn't it? Isn't it just amazing that the Lord would allow us? To love him and to express that love and this woman abandons herself.

She doesn't care what anybody else thinks and she she she she does this in the Pharisee in verse 39 of course when He sees this he's talking within himself. He's talking to himself not audibly. If this man were a prophet he would have known what manner of woman this is that touches him for she is a sinner and Jesus immediately answers him.