Mark 2:16

The Text-Critical English New Testament

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples, “Why is he eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”

Cross References

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or 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 is your teacher eating with tax collectors and sinners?”

Mark 2:15

Later, as Jesus was reclining at the table in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners reclined with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

Mark 2:7

“Why does this man speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed like this: ‘God, I thank yoʋ that I am not like other people: swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 19:10

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

Luke 19:7

When all the people saw it, they grumbled, saying, “He has gone in to stay with a sinful man.”

Luke 5:30

But the scribes of the people and the Pharisees were grumbling at his disciples, saying, “Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”

Acts 23:9

Then there arose a great clamor, and the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and argued vehemently, “We find no evil in this man. If a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel, let us not fight against God.”

1 Corinthians 2:15

But he who is spiritual makes judgments about all things, and yet he himself is not subject to any man's judgment.

Hebrews 12:3

Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary or lose heart.