Luke 15:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

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  • Matt 9:11 : 11 And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 And when they saw [it], they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
  • Acts 11:3 : 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
  • Gal 2:12 : 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
  • Luke 5:30 : 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
  • Luke 7:34 : 34 ‹The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!›
  • Luke 7:39 : 39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw [it], he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman [this is] that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
  • Luke 15:29-30 : 29 ‹And he answering said to› [his] ‹father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:› 30 ‹But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.›
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 ¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

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    29And 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.

    30But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

    31And Jesus answering said unto them, ‹They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.›

    32‹I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.›

    33And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise [the disciples] of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

  • Mark 2:14-17
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    14And as he passed by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, ‹Follow me.› And he arose and followed him.

    15And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

    16And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

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    1¶ Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

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    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.

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    3And he spake this parable unto them, saying,

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    7And when they saw [it], they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

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    36¶ And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.

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    15¶ And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed [is] he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

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    11¶ And he said, ‹A certain man had two sons:›

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    39Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw [it], he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman [this is] that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

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    6But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

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