Luke 15:1
And all the publicans and the sinners were drawing near to him, to hear him.
Noyes Bible
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 when the wicked man turneth from his iniquity which he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Matthew 21:28But what think ye? A man had two sons: he came to the first, and said, Son, go, work today in the vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people when they heard him, and the publicans, acknowledged God as righteous by being baptized with the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20Moreover the law came in in addition, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded much 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 →