Luke 15:1
Then all the tax collectors and ‘sinners’ were getting close to Him to hear Him.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 21:28“But what do you think? A certain man had two sons, and going to the first he said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
Luke 7:29(When all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.
Romans 5:20However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded,
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 →