Luke 5:30

and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Literal Standard Version

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

29And Levi made a great entertainment to Him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax collectors and others who were with them reclining,

31And Jesus answering said to them, “They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

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Cross References

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.

Mark 9:16And He questioned the scribes, “What do you dispute with them?”

Luke 5:21And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks evil words? Who is able to forgive sins, except God only?”

Luke 7:34the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, Behold, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners;

Luke 15:1And all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to Him, to hear Him,

Luke 19:7and having seen [it], they were all murmuring, saying, “He went in 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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