Verse 1

Then resorted vnto hym all the publicanes and sinners, for to heare hym.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 9:10-13 : 10 And it came to passe, as Iesus sate at meate in his house, beholde, many publicans also and sinners came, and sate downe with Iesus and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees sawe it, they sayde vnto his disciples: Why eateth your maister with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Iesus hearde that, he sayde vnto them: They that be whole, nede not the phisition, but they that are sicke. 13 Go ye, and learne what that meaneth, I wyll haue mercie, and not sacrifice: for I am not come, to call the righteous, but sinners to repentaunce.
  • Matt 21:28-31 : 28 But what thynke you? A man had two sonnes, and came to the firste, and saide: sonne, go and worke to day in my vineyarde. 29 He aunswered and saide, I wyll not: but afterwarde he repented, and went. 30 Then came he to the seconde, & sayde lykewyse. And he aunswered & saide, I wyll sir, and went not. 31 Whether of them twayne did the wyl of the father? And they saide vnto him, the first. Iesus sayth vnto them: Ueryly I saye vnto you, that publicanes & harlottes go into the kingdome of God, before you.
  • Luke 5:29-32 : 29 And Leui made hym a great feast in his owne house. And there was a great companie of publicanes, and of other that sate at meate with them. 30 But they that were scribes and pharisees among them, murmured agaynst his disciples saying: Why do ye eate and drynke with publicanes and sinners? 31 And Iesus aunswered, and saide vnto them, They that are whole, neede not the phisition: But they that are sicke. 32 I came not to call the ryghteous: but sinners to repentaunce.
  • Luke 13:30 : 30 And beholde, there are last, which shalbe first: And there are first, which shalbe last.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 But the lawe in the meane tyme entred in, that sinne shoulde encrease. But where sinne was plenteous, grace was more plenteous.
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 This is a faythfull saying, and by all meanes worthy to be receaued, that Christe Iesus came into the worlde to saue synners, of whom I am chiefe.
  • Ezek 18:27 : 27 Agayne, when the wicked turneth away from his wickednesse that he hath done, and doth iudgement and right, he shall saue his soule aliue.
  • Luke 7:29 : 29 And all the people, and the publicanes that hearde hym, iustified God, and were baptized with the baptisme of Iohn.