Luke 15:1
Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive.
Matthew 21:28But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism.
Romans 5:20Now the law entered in, that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.
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 →