Luke 15:1 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Now the tax collectors and worldly people were all gathering around Jesus to listen to Him.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

NOW THE tax collectors and [notorious and especially wicked] sinners were all coming near to [Jesus] to listen to Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him.

Common English Bible

All the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around Jesus to listen to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

NOW the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.

Luke 15:1 Cross References

Matthew 5:46

For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward will you get for that? Do not even the publicans [Note: These were people with a bad reputation for their dishonest tax collecting activities] do that much?

Luke 13:30

And certainly, those [who appear to be] last will be first [i.e., in importance and blessings], and those [who appear to be] first will [end up] being last.”

Luke 7:29

And when all the people, together with the tax collectors, heard this they praised God for being so just, and were immersed with the immersion [preached] by John.

Romans 5:20

This was so that just as sin ruled [over mankind], causing [physical] death, even so God’s unearned favor would rule [over mankind], providing [them with] righteousness, and leading to never ending life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Timothy 1:15

This saying is trustworthy and deserves to be fully accepted: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I am the worst of them all.