Matthew 9:10

World English Bible (2000)

It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

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  • Matt 5:46-47 : 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same? 47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
  • Mark 2:15-17 : 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. 16 The 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?" 17 When 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."
  • Luke 5:29-32 : 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. 30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" 31 Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
  • John 9:31 : 31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
  • 1 Tim 1:13-16 : 13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

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  • Mark 2:13-17
    5 verses
    94%

    13 He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

    14 As 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.

    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.

    16 The 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?"

    17 When 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 9:11-14
    4 verses
    89%

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

    12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

    13 But 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."

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

  • Luke 5:27-30
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    87%

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

    28 He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

    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.

    30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

  • Matt 9:8-9
    2 verses
    84%

    8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

    9 As 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.

  • Luke 15:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

    2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."

  • Luke 7:34
    78%

    34 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!'

  • Luke 7:36-37
    2 verses
    78%

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

    37 Behold, 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 11:37
    76%

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

  • Luke 14:1
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    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.

  • Matt 11:19
    75%

    19 The 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."

  • Luke 19:7
    74%

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

  • Luke 22:14
    73%

    14 When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles.

  • John 6:3
    73%

    3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

  • Luke 7:49
    72%

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

  • Luke 3:12
    72%

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

  • Mark 9:14
    72%

    14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

  • Luke 5:32-33
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    32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

    33 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

  • Matt 26:20
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    20 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

  • Luke 14:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 When 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!"

    16 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

  • Matt 15:29
    70%

    29 Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.

  • Luke 19:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

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

  • Matt 13:1
    70%

    1 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

  • Matt 5:1
    69%

    1 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

  • Matt 21:31-32
    2 verses
    69%

    31 Which 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.

    32 For 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 6:17
    69%

    17 He 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;

  • Luke 19:5
    69%

    5 When 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."

  • Matt 8:11
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    11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

  • Luke 10:38
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    38 It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

  • Matt 26:18
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    18 He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

  • Matt 19:2
    69%

    2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

  • Luke 9:15
    69%

    15 They did so, and made them all sit down.

  • John 12:2
    69%

    2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

  • Mark 14:18
    69%

    18 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me--he who eats with me."