Luke 15:1
THEN drew nigh unto him all the tax-farmers and the sinners to hear him.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 murmured, saying, This man entertains sinners, and eateth with them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:28But what think ye? A man had two sons; and coming to the first he said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people when they heard it, and the publicans, glorified God, being baptised with the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20But the law was introduced, that the offence might be more abundant. But where sin had abounded, there hath grace abounded more exceedingly:
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 →