Luke 5:30

The Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

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In The King James Version

But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

In Context

29Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

31Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.'

Mark 9:16He asked them, "What are you asking them?"

Luke 5:21The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

Luke 7:34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

Luke 19:7And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:28-39

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering… Read the whole commentary →

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