Luke 15:1
Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.
Catholic Public Domain 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 scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.”
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27And when the impious man turns himself away from his impiety, which he has done, and accomplishes judgment and justice, he shall cause his own soul to live.
Matthew 21:28But how does it seem to you? A certain man had two sons. And approaching the first, he said: ‘Son, go out today to work in my vineyard.’
Luke 7:29And upon hearing this, all the people and the tax collectors justified God, by being baptized with the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20Now the law entered in such a way that offenses would abound. But where offenses were abundant, grace was superabundant.
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 →