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.”
All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.”
On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely.
(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
The discerning person looks to wisdom, but the eyes of a fool to the ends of the earth.
Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
singing, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
May that be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life.