The Pharisee and the Publican – Clipart

He Parable of the Pharisee And the Tax Collector doesn’t focus on what … this lesson urged the disciples to keep praying and never give up

“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ And the publican…smote upon his breast, saying, and ‘God be merciful to me a sinner.’”