Matthew 9:11
When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinful people?”
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Matthew 11:19The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, 'Look, he is a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
Mark 9:14When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them and scribes were arguing with them.
Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and other sinners were coming to Jesus to listen to him.
1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
Hebrews 5:2He can deal gently with those who are ignorant and who have been deceived, because he himself is subject to weakness.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:10-14
Matthew Called. 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a… Read the whole commentary →