Luke 15:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Cross References

Matthew 9:11

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

Luke 19:7

All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.”

Luke 7:39

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Luke 5:30

The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Acts 11:3

saying, “Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?”

Luke 7:34

the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Galatians 2:12

for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.

Matthew 11:19

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Luke 15:3

So he told them this parable:

1 Timothy 1:15

The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.