Luke 15:1
Moreover, all the [tax]collectors and the sinful have-been-being becoming-near to{same} to-be-hearing of{same},
Garth's Hyper-literal Translation
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 21:28Moreover, what[?] to{you} is-esteeming[?] [A] man has-been-having two offsprings and come[ing]-toward to{the first}, says, 'Offspring, be-withdrawing today. Be-work-izing-self in to{the vineyard} of{me}.'
Luke 7:29and all the people hear[ing], also the [tax]collectors, justify the God, immersed the immerse-effect of{John}.
Romans 5:20Moreover, law comes-beside-into, in-which-place it-may-much-more-ize the fall-aside-effect. Moreover, where the sin much-more-izes, the grace/favor over-exceeds,
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 →