Luke 15:1

Then drew near to him the publicans and sinners to hear him.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

In Context

2And the Sophree and Pharishee murmured, and said, This (man) receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:28BUT how doth appear to you? a certain man had two sons; and he came to the elder, and said to him, My son, go to-day work in the vinery.

Luke 7:29(And all the people that heard him, and the tribute-gatherers also, justified Aloha, because they were baptized with the baptism of Juchanon.

Romans 5:20But the entrance which was of the law, (made) sin to increase; and where sin increased, there grace hath abounded:

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 →

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