Luke 15:1
Tax collectors and other “sinners” often used to come and listen to Jesus.
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In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27But if someone wicked stops doing wrong and does what is fair and right, they will save their life.
Matthew 21:28“But what do you think about this illustration? Once there was a man who had two sons. He went to the first son, and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
Luke 7:29When they heard him, all of them—even the tax collectors—followed what God said was good and right, for they had been baptized by John.
Romans 5:20When the law was introduced, sin became even more obvious. But while sin became much more obvious, grace became even more obvious!
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 →