Luke 15:1
And pupplicans and synful men weren neiyynge to him, to here hym.
Wycliffe (portions)
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 21:28But what semeth to you? A man hadde twey sones; and he cam to the firste, and seide, Sone, go worche this dai in my vyneyerd.
Luke 7:29And al the puple herynge, and pupplicans, that hadden be baptisid with baptym of Joon, iustifieden God;
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 →