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Mark 2:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When the scribes  who were Pharisees  , saw that he was eating  with sinners  and tax collectors,  they asked his disciples, ‘Why does he eat  with tax collectors and sinners? ’

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For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.’


The Pharisee was standing   and praying like this about himself:   “God, I thank you that I’m not like other people #– #greedy,   unrighteous,   adulterers,   or even like this tax collector.


The spiritual person, however, can evaluate  everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.


The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’  party got up and argued vehemently, ‘We find nothing evil in this man.  What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him? ’  ,


All who saw it began to complain,  ‘He’s gone to stay with a sinful man.’


They say, “Keep to yourself, don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you! ” These practices are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.


For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you won’t grow weary and give up.


‘Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming!  Who can forgive  sins  but God alone? ’


If he doesn’t pay attention to them, tell the church.   , If he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.


When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners? ’


For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?


While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors  and sinners  were eating  with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.


But the Pharisees and their scribes  were complaining to his disciples, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ’





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