Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were approaching him to hear him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
2And the Pharisees and the scholars murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Matthew 21:28But what does it seem to you? A man had two children. And having come to the first, he said, Child, go work today in my vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people having heard, and the tax collectors who were immersed the immersion of John, justified God.
Romans 5:20And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:1
Evil manners, we say, beget good laws; so, in this chapter, the murmuring of the scribes and Pharisees at the grace of Christ, and the favour he showed to publicans and sinners, gave occasion for a more full discovery of that grace than perhaps otherwise we should have had in these three parables which we have in this chapter, the scope of all of which is the same, to show, not only what God had said and sworn in the Old Testament, that he had no pleasure in the death and ruin of sinners, but that he had great… Read the whole commentary →