Luke 5:30

and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, 'Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'

Young's Literal Translation

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

29And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),

31And Jesus answering said unto them, 'They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

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Cross References

Matthew 21:28'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

Mark 9:16And he questioned the scribes, 'What dispute ye with them?'

Luke 5:21And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, 'Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?'

Luke 7:34the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

Luke 15:1And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,

Luke 19:7and having seen [it], they were all murmuring, saying — 'With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'

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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