Matthew 9:11

The Pharisees noticed this, and they inquired of His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?"

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

In Context

10And while He was reclining at table, a large number of tax-gathers and notorious sinners were of the party with Jesus and His disciples.

12He heard the question and replied, "It is not men in good health who require a doctor, but the sick.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they exclaim, `See this man! --given to gluttony and tippling, and a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions."

Mark 9:14As they came to rejoin the disciples, they saw an immense crowd surrounding them and a party of Scribes disputing with them.

Luke 15:1Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;

Hebrews 5:2and must be one who is able to bear patiently with the ignorant and erring, because he himself also is beset with infirmity.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:10-14

Matthew Called. 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a… Read the whole commentary →

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