Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear 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 a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his life.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
(When they heard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John;
Law came in, to increase the trespass; 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. And I am the foremost of sinners;