Luke 5:30

And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

In Context

29And Levi made him a great feast at his own house; and there was a great multitude of publicans and others, who reclined at table with them.

31And Jesus answered arid said to them: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are sick.

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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.

Mark 9:16And he asked the scribes: Why are you disputing with, them?

Luke 5:21And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying: Who is this that utters impious words? Who can forgive sins but God alone?

Luke 7:34The Son of man has come, eating and drinking, and you say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.

Luke 15:1And all the publicans and the sinners came near to him to hear him.

Luke 19:7And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying: He has gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:28-39

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering… Read the whole commentary →

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