Mark 2:15

A Conservative Version

And it came to pass, while he was dining in his house, that many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

Cross References

Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were approaching him to hear him.

Luke 6:17

And having come down with them, he stood on a level place. And a company of his disciples, and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, were those who came to hear him, and to be h

Matthew 5:46

For if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?

Mark 2:14

And as he passed by he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. And he says to him, Follow thou me. And having risen, he followed him.

Mark 2:16

And the scholars of the Pharisees, when they saw him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples, Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?