Luke 15:1

Now all the tax-gatherers and sinners continued to draw near him, and to listen to him.

Montgomery 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 began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

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Cross References

Matthew 21:28"But give me your judgment. There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said to him, "‘Son, go work today in my vineyard!’

Luke 7:29On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John;

Romans 5:20Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;

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 →

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