Mark 2:16

New English Translation

When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

They say, ‘Keep to yourself! Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’ These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?

Matthew 9:11

When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Mark 2:15

As Jesus was having a meal in Levi’s home, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

Mark 2:7

“Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 19:7

And when the people saw it, they all complained, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 5:30

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Acts 23:9

There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

1 Corinthians 2:15

The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.

Hebrews 12:3

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.