Luke 15:1
Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.
Matthew 21:28But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.
Luke 7:29(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.
Romans 5:20And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
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 →