The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children.*
Matthew 5:46 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if you love those who love you, what reward can you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that? American Standard Version (1901) For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? Common English Bible If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? Catholic Public Domain Version For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? |
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children.*
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.
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
*Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Yeshua and his talmidim, for there were many, and they followed him.
The scribes and the Perushim, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his talmidim, *Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?*
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
There was a man named Zakkai. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, *He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.*
Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, *Rabbi, what must we do?*
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
Their scribes and the Perushim murmured against his talmidim, saying, *Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?*
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been immersed with Yochanan's immersion.
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'