Luke 15:2
As a result the Pharisees and the religious teachers complained, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
In Context
1Tax collectors and other “sinners” often used to come and listen to Jesus.
3So Jesus told them this story as an illustration.
Cross References
Matthew 9:11When the Pharisees saw this they asked Jesus' disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Luke 7:34Now the Son of man is here, and eats and drinks with people, but you say, ‘Look, he spends his time eating too much food and drinking too much wine. Plus he's a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
Luke 15:29He told his father, ‘Look, all these years I've served you, and never disobeyed you, but you never once gave me even a young goat so I could have a party with my friends.
Acts 11:3“You went into the homes of uncircumcised men, and ate with them,” they said.
Galatians 2:12Before some of James' friends arrived, Peter used to eat with the foreigners. But when these people came he stopped doing this and stayed away from the foreigners. He was afraid of being criticized by those who insisted that men had to be circumcised.
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:2-11
The Lost Sheep and Piece of Silver. 1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. 3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh… Read the whole commentary →