Luke 15:1
AND there were drawing near to him all the publicans and the sinners to hear him.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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
Matthew 21:28But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said: Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people, hearing it, and the publicans, justified God, having been immersed with John's immersion.
Romans 5:20Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much 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 →