And when the scribes and pharises saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples: how is it, that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
The pharise stood and prayed thus with himself. God I thank thee that I am not as other are, extortioners, unjust, advoutrers, and even as the publican is.
¶ And it happened on a certain day, that he taught, and there sat the pharises, and doctors of law, which were come out of all the towns of Galile, Jewry, and Ierusalem, and the power of the Lord was to heal them.
The son of man is come and eateth and drinketh, and ye say: behold a man which is a glutton, and a drinker of wine, the friend of publicans and sinners.
¶ When the pharise which bade him to his house, saw that, he spake within himself: saying: If this man were a prophet, he would surely have known who and what manner woman this is which toucheth him, for she is a sinner.
And there arose a great cry, and the scribes which were of the pharyses' part strove saying: We find none evil in this man. Though a spirit, or an angel hath appeared to him, let us not strive against God.