Mark 2:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why -- that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'

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  • Isa 65:5 : 5 Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These `are' a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 and having seen `it', they were all murmuring, saying -- `With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'
  • Acts 23:9 : 9 And there came a great cry, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part having arisen, were striving, saying, `No evil do we find in this man; and if a spirit spake to him, or a messenger, we may not fight against God;'
  • 1 Cor 2:15 : 15 and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;
  • Heb 12:3 : 3 for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.
  • Luke 19:10 : 10 for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'
  • Matt 9:11 : 11 and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'
  • Matt 18:17 : 17 `And if he may not hear them, say `it' to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.
  • Mark 2:7 : 7 `Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?'
  • Luke 15:2-7 : 2 and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.' 3 And he spake unto them this simile, saying, 4 `What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it? 5 and having found, he doth lay `it' on his shoulders rejoicing, 6 and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one. 7 `I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

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