Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and other sinners were coming to Jesus to listen to him.
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In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27But when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has done and performs justice and righteousness, then he will preserve his life.
Matthew 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.'
Luke 7:29(When all the people heard this, including the tax collectors, they declared that God is righteous, because they had been baptized with the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20But the law came in to increase the trespass. But where sin abounded, grace abounded even 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 →