Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and the scholars murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
In Context
1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were approaching him to hear him.
3And he spoke this parable to them, saying,
Cross References
Matthew 9:11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?
Luke 7:34The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold the man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!
Luke 15:29But having answered, he said to his father, Lo, so many years do I serve thee, and I never passed by a commandment of thine, and yet thou never gave me a goat that I might be merry with my friends.
Acts 11:3saying, Thou went in to uncircumcised men, having also eaten with them.
Galatians 2:12For before certain men came from James he ate together with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing men of circumcision.
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:2-11
The Lost Sheep and Piece of Silver. 1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. 3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh… Read the whole commentary →