Luke 15:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

² And the Pharisees and experts in the Law of Moses both complained, saying, “This man welcomes worldly people and [even] eats with them.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And the Pharisees and the scribes kept muttering and indignantly complaining, saying, This man accepts and receives and welcomes [preeminently wicked] sinners and eats with them.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

Common English Bible

² The Pharisees and legal experts were grumbling, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This one accepts sinners and eats with them."

Luke 15:2 Cross References

Matthew 9:11

And when the Pharisees saw this they said to His disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and worldly people?”

Luke 19:7

And when the crowd saw this, they began complaining [i.e., because Zacchaeus was a despised tax collector] and said, “He is going to lodge with a sinful man.”

Luke 7:39

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who touched him and what kind of a woman she was --- a sinner.”

Luke 5:30

Now the Pharisees and their experts in the Law of Moses complained to Jesus’ disciples, saying, “Why do you men eat and drink with tax collectors and worldly people?”

Acts 11:3

saying, “You went in and ate with non-Jewish people, did you not?”

Luke 7:34

[Then] the Son of man came eating and drinking [at festive occasions] and you said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and worldly people.’

Galatians 2:12

For, before certain [leaders] came from James [i.e., Jesus’ brother, a leader of the Jerusalem church, See Acts 12:17; 15:13-22], he had eaten [a social meal] with some Gentiles. But when these men came, he abruptly discontinued this practice out of fear of the circumcised ones [i.e., out of concern for what the Jews would think of him].

Matthew 11:19

[Then] the Son of man came eating and drinking [at festive occasions] and they said, ‘Look, He is a glutton and a drunkard and a friend of tax collectors and worldly people.’ It proves that [God’s] wise counsel is right by the way things turn out.”

Luke 15:3

So, Jesus told them this parable, saying,

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.