Luke 5:30

Well the scribes and Pharisees complained about them to His disciples, saying, “How can you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?!”

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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 at his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

31So Jesus reacted and said to them: “Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, just those who are sick.

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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.’

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

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

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

Luke 15:1Then all the tax collectors and ‘sinners’ were getting close to Him to hear Him.

Luke 19:7But when they saw it, they all started complaining, saying, “He has entered to lodge with a sinful man!”

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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