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 person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? 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 all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.