Luke 5:30

And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?

Darby Translation

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 a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.

31And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

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Cross References

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.

Mark 9:16And he asked them, What do ye question with them about?

Luke 5:21And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason [in their minds], saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins but God alone?

Luke 7:34The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold an eater and wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

Luke 15:1And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him;

Luke 19:7And all murmured when they saw [it], saying, He has turned in to lodge with a sinful man.

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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