Mark 2:16

World Messianic Bible British Edition

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 9:11

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your rabbi eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Mark 2:15

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Yeshua and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

Mark 2:7

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

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 19:10

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

Luke 19:7

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 5:30

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Acts 23:9

A great clamour arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

1 Corinthians 2:15

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.

Hebrews 12:3

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.