Luke 15:1
And publicans and sinners came to him, to hear him.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
In Context
2And the Scribes and Pharisees murmured, and said: This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:28But how appeareth it to you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first and said to him, My son, go, labor to-day in the vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people that heard him, justified God, as they had been baptized with John's baptism.
Romans 5:20And the entrance given to the law, was that sin might increase: and where sin increased, there grace 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 →