Luke 15:1
And all the publicans and sinners were drawing nigh to Him to hear Him.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
2And the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying, that, He receives sinners, and eats with them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:28What seems to you? A man had two sons; and going to the first, he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people hearing and the publicans justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20But the law came, that the transgression might abound; but where sin did abound, there did grace superabound:
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 →