Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him.
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
NOW THE tax collectors and [notorious and especially wicked] sinners were all coming near to [Jesus] to listen to Him.
Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him.
All the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around Jesus to listen to him.
Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.
NOW the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.
Again, when the wicked turn away from the wickedness they have committed and do what is lawful and right, they shall save their life.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been baptized with John's baptism.
But law came in, with the result that the trespass multiplied; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.