Matthew 9:11

Amplified Bible

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Master eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me, For I am too holy for you [and you might defile me]!’ These [people] are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking [with others], and they say, ‘Look! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews]!’ Yet wisdom is justified and vindicated by her deeds [in the lives of those who respond to Me].”

Matthew 5:46

For if you love [only]those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?

Matthew 9:10

Then as Jesus was reclining at the table in Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews] came and ate with Him and His disciples.

Mark 2:16

When the scribes [belonging to the sect] of the Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with the sinners [including non-observant Jews] and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 19:7

When the people saw it, they all began muttering [in discontent], “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a [notorious] sinner.”

Luke 5:30

The Pharisees and their scribes [seeing those with whom He was associating] began murmuring in discontent to His disciples, asking, “Why are you eating and drinking with the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews]?”

Acts 11:3

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and [even] ate with them!”

Galatians 2:15

[I went on to say] “We are Jews by birth and not sinners from among the Gentiles;

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to deal gently with the spiritually ignorant and misguided, since he is also subject to human weakness;

2 John 1:10

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching [but diminishes or adds to the doctrine of Christ], do not receive or welcome him into your house, and do not give him a greeting or any encouragement;