Luke 15:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • 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 19:7 : 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
  • Acts 11:3 : 3 saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"
  • Gal 2:12 : 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
  • Luke 5:30 : 30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
  • Luke 7:34 : 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 7:39 : 39 Now 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."
  • Luke 15:29-30 : 29 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for 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.

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    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?"

  • Mark 2:14-17
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    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?"

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

  • Matt 9:9-12
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    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.

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  • Luke 15:3
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    3He told them this parable.

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

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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!'

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

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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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    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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    12Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"

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    1Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

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    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!"

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    21The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

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    11He said, "A certain man had two sons.

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

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    10"Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

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    24The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

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    1Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

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

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    2But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

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    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."

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

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    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.