Matthew 9:11
And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill.
Cross References
Matthew 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.
Mark 9:14And presently all the people seeing Jesus, were astonished and struck with fear; and running to him, they saluted him.
Luke 15:1Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.
1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.
Hebrews 5:2Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:10-14
Matthew Called. 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a… Read the whole commentary →