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Luke 18:10-15 records the parable Jesus told about two men who went to the temple to pray. The first man was a Pharisee focused on himself, and Jesus even said he “prayed this to himself.” The prayer of the Pharisee was filled with comparisons to other people whom he believed were worse than himself. He was thankful that he was better than everyone else, and assumed God shared his estimation. The other man was a tax collector, one of those specifically named by the Pharisee a