Luke 15:1
And all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to Him, to hear Him,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27And in the turning back of the wicked || From his wickedness that he has done, || And he does judgment and righteousness, || He keeps his soul alive.
Matthew 21:28And what do you think? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, today be working in my vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people having heard, and the tax collectors, declared God righteous, having been immersed with the immersion of John,
Romans 5:20And law came in, that the offense might abound, and where sin abounded, grace hyper-abounded,
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 →