Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Jesus spoke this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised

others: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--cheaters, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.' 13 But the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast,

saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!' Then Jesus said, “I tell you, this tax collector went down to his house justified and not the Pharisee; for

everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."