Luke 7:34

World English Bible (2000)

The 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!'

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  • Luke 15:2 : 2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
  • Luke 14:1 : 1 It 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.
  • 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.
  • Matt 9:11 : 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
  • Luke 5:29 : 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.
  • Luke 7:36 : 36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
  • Luke 11:37 : 37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.
  • John 2:2 : 2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

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  • Matt 11:18-20
    3 verses
    89%

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

    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."

    20Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn't repent.

  • Luke 7:32-33
    2 verses
    83%

    32They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

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

  • Mark 2:15-18
    4 verses
    82%

    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."

    18John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

  • Matt 9:9-15
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    79%

    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.

    13But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

    14Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

    15Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

  • Luke 15:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Luke 5:29-34
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    77%

    29Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

    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 7:35-37
    3 verses
    74%

    35Wisdom is justified by all her children."

    36One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.

    37Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

  • Luke 19:7
    74%

    7When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

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

  • Matt 21:31-32
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    71%

    31Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.

    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.

  • Luke 7:49
    71%

    49Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"

  • Matt 18:11
    70%

    11For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

  • Luke 11:37
    70%

    37Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

  • Prov 23:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

    21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

  • Zech 7:6
    70%

    6When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

  • Luke 14:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • John 6:53
    69%

    53Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

  • Luke 15:30
    69%

    30But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

  • Luke 14:1
    69%

    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.

  • Luke 5:27
    69%

    27After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"

  • Matt 24:49
    69%

    49and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

  • Luke 7:39-40
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    68%

    39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."

    40Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on."

  • Luke 13:26
    68%

    26Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'

  • Luke 3:12
    68%

    12Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"

  • Luke 15:11
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    11He said, "A certain man had two sons.