Luke 15:1

Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

In Context

2and this led the Pharisees and the Scribes indignantly to complain, saying, "He gives a welcome to notorious sinners, and joins them at their meals!"

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Cross References

Matthew 21:28"But give me your judgement. There was a man who had two sons. He came to the elder of them, and said, "`My son, go and work in the vineyard to-day.'

Luke 7:29And all the people, including the tax-gatherers, when they listened to him upheld the righteousness of God, by being baptized with John's baptism.

Romans 5:20Now Law was brought in later on, so that transgression might increase. But where sin increased, grace has overflowed;

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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