For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Luke 5:30 - The Text-Critical English New Testament But the scribes of the people and the Pharisees were grumbling at his disciples, saying, “Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling against Jesus' disciples, saying, Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and [preeminently] sinful people? American Standard Version (1901) And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with the publicans and sinners? Common English Bible The Pharisees and their legal experts grumbled against his disciples. They said, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Catholic Public Domain Version But the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? |
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why is your teacher eating with tax collectors and sinners?”
When the scribes and the Pharisees saw Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples, “Why is he eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”
(For none of the Pharisees or Jews eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders.
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed like this: ‘God, I thank yoʋ that I am not like other people: swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
When all the people saw it, they grumbled, saying, “He has gone in to stay with a sinful man.”
On one of those days, as he was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was present to heal the people.
But the scribes and the Pharisees began to question what Jesus said: “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
Then there arose a great clamor, and the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and argued vehemently, “We find no evil in this man. If a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel, let us not fight against God.”