Mark 2:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When the scribes of 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

who say, “Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

Matthew 18:17

If that person refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church, and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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

And as he sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

Mark 2:7

“Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 19:10

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

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 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 23:9

Then a great clamor arose, and certain scribes of the Pharisees’ group stood up and contended, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

1 Corinthians 2:15

Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.

Hebrews 12:3

Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart.