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Commentary to the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time–Year CThe listeners are “some who presumed of being righteous and despised the others.” They are not the Pharisees of Jesus’ time but the Christians of Luke’s community. It is in them that the dangerous Pharisaical mentality is insinuated. The parable is directed to the Christians of all times because the idea of ‘meriting’ before God is profoundly rooted in the person.