Matthew 11:19

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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her actions.

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  • Matt 9:10-11 : 10 While Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, 'Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?'
  • Luke 5:29-30 : 29 Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors and others were reclining there with them. 30 But the Pharisees and their scribes began to grumble to His disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
  • Luke 14:1 : 1 One Sabbath, as Jesus went to eat at the house of a prominent Pharisee, they were carefully watching him.
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 But when they saw this, everyone began to complain, saying, "He has gone to be a guest with a sinful man."
  • Rom 15:2 : 2 Each of us should please our neighbor for their good, to build them up.
  • 1 Cor 1:24-29 : 24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 26 Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 So that no one may boast before him.
  • Luke 15:1-2 : 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, saying, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.'
  • Luke 7:29 : 29 (When all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged that God's way was right, because they had been baptized by John.)
  • Luke 7:34-36 : 34 'The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!"' 35 'Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.' 36 One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So Jesus went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 For You have made me glad by Your work, O LORD; I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands. 6 How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 Wisdom is before the face of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
  • Eph 3:8-9 : 8 To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light for everyone the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ, 10 so that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places,
  • Rev 5:11-14 : 11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. Their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands. 12 In a loud voice they said: "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing!" 13 Then I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing, honor, glory, and power forever and ever!" 14 The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped the one who lives forever and ever.
  • Rev 7:12 : 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!”
  • John 2:2 : 2 Jesus and His disciples were also invited to the wedding.
  • John 12:2-8 : 2 There they prepared a dinner for Him. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him. 3 Then Mary took a pound of pure, expensive nard perfume, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples (the one who was about to betray Him), said, 5 "Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" 6 He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the money box and would steal from what was put into it. 7 Jesus replied, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of My burial preparation." 8 "For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have Me."

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    32'They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another: "We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a lament, and you did not weep."'

    33'For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, "He has a demon!"'

    34'The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!"'

    35'Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.'

    36One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So Jesus went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table.

  • Matt 11:16-18
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    16To what can I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to their companions:

    17‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

    18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

  • Mark 2:15-19
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    15And while Jesus was dining in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining at the table with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

    16And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples, 'Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?'

    17When Jesus heard this, he said to them, 'Those who are well have no need of a doctor, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.'

    18Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and asked Jesus, 'Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast?

    19Jesus said to them, 'Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.'

  • Matt 9:9-15
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    9As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. 'Follow me,' he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

    10While Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples.

    11When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, 'Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?'

    12But when Jesus heard this, he said, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.'

    13'Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'

    14Then the disciples of John came to him and asked, 'Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?'

    15Jesus answered them, 'Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.'

  • Luke 15:1-3
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    1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Him.

    2And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, saying, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.'

    3So He told them this parable, saying:

  • Luke 5:29-34
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    29Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors and others were reclining there with them.

    30But the Pharisees and their scribes began to grumble to His disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

    31Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

    32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

    33Then they said to Him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?"

    34Jesus replied, "Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

  • Matt 11:20
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    20Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent:

  • Matt 21:31-32
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    31Which of the two did the will of his father? They said, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.'

    32For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him. And even when you saw it, you did not later change your minds and believe him.

  • Luke 19:10
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    10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.

  • Luke 19:7
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    7But when they saw this, everyone began to complain, saying, "He has gone to be a guest with a sinful man."

  • Prov 23:20-21
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    20Do not be among heavy drinkers of wine or gluttons of meat.

    21For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

  • Luke 14:15-16
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    15When one of those reclining at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, 'Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.'

    16Jesus replied, 'A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests.'

  • Matt 18:11
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    11For the Son of Man came to save what was lost.

  • Luke 15:11
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    11Then He said, 'There was a man who had two sons.'

  • Prov 4:17
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    17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • Luke 11:37
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    37While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee invited Him to dine with him; so He went in and reclined at the table.

  • Deut 21:20
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    20They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’

  • 1 Cor 11:21
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    21For when you eat, each one takes his own supper ahead of others. One goes hungry, and another gets drunk.

  • Luke 11:30
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    30For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

  • Matt 24:49
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    49and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

  • Luke 7:29
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    29(When all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged that God's way was right, because they had been baptized by John.)

  • Prov 20:1
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    1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • Luke 15:30
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    30But when this son of yours came, who has squandered your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

  • Luke 16:8
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    8The master praised the dishonest manager for acting shrewdly, because the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.