The Thankful Woman

Luke 7:36-50

Our true story comes from a part of the Bible called the Gospel of Luke. Luke loved Jesus and wanted others to know and love Jesus, too. And the word gospel means “good news!”

One day, an important teacher invited Jesus to his house for dinner. Many people came to the dinner, and they were sitting around the table with Jesus, eating and talking. Then a woman, who was not invited, walked in with a bottle of perfume.


Now, this woman had made a lot of bad choices, so the important teacher who invited Jesus over did not think she should be at the dinner. But the woman heard that Jesus was going to be there. She knew Jesus loved her, and she wanted to see Him.


The woman went to Jesus and started crying. Do you know why she was crying? She was crying because she knew Jesus loved her, no matter what. She was SO thankful that Jesus loved her that she wanted to do something special for Him. So, she washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.


She poured special perfume on His feet because she loved Jesus so much and was so thankful for Him. 


The important teacher thought Jesus should stay away from the woman. He said, “Jesus, don’t you know what she’s done?”


But Jesus DID know everything the woman had done, and He knew how sorry she was. He could see how much the woman loved Him. So, Jesus smiled at her and said, “Your sins are forgiven . . . go in peace.”


Jesus forgave the woman for the bad choices she’d made, and He loved her anyway. Jesus loves you no matter what, too. Give yourselves a big hug! Yes! Jesus loves you. There is absolutely nothing you could ever do to make Jesus stop loving you.






Bible Verse: How wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. —Ephesians 3:18, NIV

Text Truth: Jesus loves me no matter what.



Family Devotional

Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
—Luke 7:48

In our Bible story, we learned that Jesus loves us, no matter what. That’s A LOT of love! And since we don’t want to ever forget how much Jesus loves us, we have been learning a Bible verse that will help us remember!

How wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. —Ephesians 3:18, NIV

The woman in our story wanted to show Jesus how thankful she was. So, with your family, make a list of things you’re thankful for. Have each family member write down one thing. And be sure to write the name of the family member next to their thing.

Pray with your family. Allow any family members to pray if they wish. In your own words, say, “Dear God, We have so much to be thankful for! [family member’s name] wants to thank You for [what family member listed]. [family member’s name] wants to thank You for [what family member listed]. (Continue with each family member.) And we all want to thank You for how much Jesus loves us. In Jesus’ name, amen.”

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Story illustrations are made possible by a joint venture of Good News Productions, International and College Press Publishing Co. Artist: Paula Nash Giltner (www.theglobalgospel.org). The images are freely available for personal, teaching and ministry use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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