Matthew 9:11

New Century Version

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked Jesus’ followers, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

But they tell others, ‘Stay away, and don’t come near me. I am too holy for you.’ These people are like smoke in my nose. Like a fire that burns all the time, they continue to make me angry.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came, eating and drinking, and people say, ‘Look at him! He eats too much and drinks too much wine, and he is a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved to be right by what she does.”

Matthew 5:46

If you love only the people who love you, you will get no reward. Even the tax collectors do that.

Matthew 9:10

As Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with Jesus and his followers.

Mark 2:16

When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with the tax collectors and “sinners,” they asked his followers, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 19:7

All the people saw this and began to complain, “Jesus is staying with a sinner!”

Luke 5:30

But the Pharisees and the men who taught the law for the Pharisees began to complain to Jesus’ followers, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Acts 11:3

They said, “You went into the homes of people who are not circumcised and ate with them!”

Galatians 2:15

We were not born as non-Jewish “sinners,” but as Jews.

Hebrews 5:2

Since he himself is weak, he is able to be gentle with those who do not understand and who are doing wrong things.

2 John 1:10

If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not welcome or accept that person into your house.