Luke 15:1
And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him;
Darby Translation
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
Ezekiel 18:27And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness which he hath committed, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall keep his soul alive.
Matthew 21:28But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in [my] vineyard.
Luke 7:29(And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;
Romans 5:20But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
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 →