Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
2The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.
Matthew 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
Luke 7:29When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
Romans 5:20The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,
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 →