Mark 2:16

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

When the Teachers of the Law belonging to the party of the Pharisees saw that he was eating in the company of such people, they said to his disciples: "He is eating in the company of tax- gatherers and outcasts!"

Cross References

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, speak to the Church; and, if he also refuses to listen to the Church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

Matthew 5:46

For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!

Matthew 9:11

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples: "Why does your Teacher eat in the company of tax-gatherers and outcasts?"

Mark 2:15

And later on he was in his house at table, and a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples; for many of them were following him.

Mark 2:7

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?"

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way--'O God, I thank thee that I am not like other men-- thieves, rogues, adulterers--or even like this tax-gatherer.

Luke 19:10

The Son of Man has come to 'search for those who are lost' and to save them."

Luke 19:7

On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

Luke 5:30

The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus."

Acts 23:9

So a great uproar ensued, and some of the Teaches of the Law belonging to the Pharisees' party stood up and hotly protested: "We find nothing whatever wrong in this man. Suppose a spirit did speak to him, or an angel--"

1 Corinthians 2:15

But the man with spiritual insight is able to understand everything, although he himself is understood by no one.

Hebrews 12:3

Weigh well the example of him who had to endure such opposition from 'men who were sinning against themselves,' so that you should not grow weary or faint-hearted.