Luke 5:32

I am not come to call the just, but the sinners, to repentance.

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

In The King James Version

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

In Context

31Jeshu answered and said to them, The whole do not require the physician, but they who are grievously ill.

33But they say to him, Why do the disciples of Juchanon constantly fast, and pray also as the Pharishee, but thine eat and drink?

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Cross References

Mark 15:7and there was one who was called Bar-aba, who was bound with the makers of sedition, they who murder in the sedition had committed.

Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he hath anointed me to evangelize to the poor, And hath sent me to heal the contrite in heart, To proclaim to the captives release, And to the blind, vision, And to assure the contrite by remission,

Luke 15:10I say to you, that so shall there be joy before the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

Luke 19:10For the Son of man came to save that which was lost.

Acts 2:38Shemun saith to them, Repent, and be baptized, every man of you, in the name of the Lord Jeshu, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:28-39

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering… Read the whole commentary →

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