Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
2So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
Matthew 21:28But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in my vineyard.’
Luke 7:29All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
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 →