Luke 15:1
And all the publicans and the sinners came near to him to hear him.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 scribes murmured, saying: This man receives sinners, and eats with them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:28But what think you? A man had two sons; and he went to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people, and the publicans that heard him, vindicated God, by being immersed with the immersion of John;
Romans 5:20But, besides the first offense, law was introduced, in order that offenses might abound: but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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 →