Luke 5:30

And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

English Majority Text (NT)

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

29Then Levi made a great banquet for Him in his own house. And there was a great number of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them to eat.

31Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:28“But what do you think? A man had two children. And having come to the first, he said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

Mark 9:16And He asked the scribes, “What are you disputing about with them?”

Luke 5:21And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this Man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?”

Luke 7:34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him.

Luke 19:7But when they saw it, they all were complaining, saying, “He has gone to be a guest with a sinner.”

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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