Luke 15:1
Then all the tax gatherers and sinners drew near to hear him.
Revised King James 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 receives sinners, and eats with them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:28But what do you think? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in the vineyard.
Luke 7:29And all the people who heard him, and the tax gatherers, acknowledged the ways of God were just, for they had been baptized with the baptism of John.
Romans 5:20The law entered, that offences might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more:
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 →