Luke 15:1

Then drew near unto Him all the publicans and other notorious sinners, to hear Him.

1770 John Worsley NT

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 entertaineth wicked persons, and eateth with them.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:28But what think ye of this? There was a man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, Son, go, work to day in my vineyard:

Luke 7:29---and all the people that heard him, even the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John;

Romans 5:20Now the law made some entrance, that the offence might appear to abound; but where sin abounded, grace hath superabounded; that as sin had reigned in death,

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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