And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, saying, “This One receives sinners and eats with them.”
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His taught ones, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
And seeing it, they all grumbled, saying, “He has gone in to stay with a man who is a sinner.”
And when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This One, if He were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled against His taught ones, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
“The Son of Aḏ
For before some came from Yaʽ
And He spoke this parable to them, saying,
Trustworthy is the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Messiah יהושע came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.