Luke 5:29
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
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Referenced Verses
- Luke 15:1 : 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
- John 12:2 : 2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
- 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; 10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. 11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
- 1 Cor 10:27 : 27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
- Matt 9:10 : 10 It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
- Mark 2:15 : 15 It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
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- Mark 2:13-175 verses89%
13He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.
14As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.
15It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
16The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
17When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
- Matt 9:9-124 verses87%
9As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.
10It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
11When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
12When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
- Luke 5:26-283 verses83%
26Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
27After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"
28He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
- Luke 5:30-345 verses82%
30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
31Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
33They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
34He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
- Luke 15:1-33 verses79%
1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
2The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
3He told them this parable.
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36One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
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37Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.
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34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
- Luke 19:5-73 verses74%
5When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
6He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
7When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
- Luke 14:15-162 verses72%
15When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"
16But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
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19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."
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1It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.
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2So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
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49Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
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12Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
- Luke 14:12-132 verses70%
12He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
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14When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles.
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3Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
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4how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
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39and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:
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29Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
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2Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
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7He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
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32For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
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4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"
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2There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
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15They did so, and made them all sit down.
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17He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
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26How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"
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20Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
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23Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;