Luke 15:1
Then resorted vnto him all the Publicanes and sinners, to heare him.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
2Therefore the Pharises and Scribes murmured, saying, Hee receiueth sinners, and eateth with them.
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27Againe when the wicked turneth away from his wickednes that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawfull and right, he shall saue his soule aliue.
Matthew 21:28But what thinke ye? A certaine man had two sonnes, and came to the elder, and saide, Sonne, goe and worke to day in my vineyarde.
Luke 7:29Then all the people that heard, and the Publicanes iustified God, being baptized with the baptisme of Iohn.
Romans 5:20Moreouer the Law entred thereupon that the offence shoulde abound: neuerthelesse, where sinne abounded, there grace abounded much more:
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 →