Luke 15:1
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
King James Version
In Context
2And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:27Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Matthew 21:28But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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 →