Mark 2:16

James Moffatt - New Testament

So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

Cross References

Luke 19:10

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

1 Corinthians 2:15

The spiritual man, again, can read the meaning of everything; and yet no one can read what he is.

Acts 23:9

Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"

Luke 19:7

But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

Hebrews 12:3

Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

Mark 2:7

"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

Matthew 9:11

So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

Matthew 5:46

For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?

Mark 2:15

Now Levi was at table in his own house, and he had many taxgatherers and sinners as guests along with Jesus and his disciples — for there were many of them among his followers.

Luke 5:30

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"