2And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here is, I. The diligent attendance of the publicans and sinners upon Christ’s ministry. Great multitudes of Jews went with him (Luke 14:25), with such an assurance of admission into the kingdom of God that he found it requisite to say that to them which would shake their vain hopes. Here multitudes of publicans and sinners drew near to him, with a humble modest fear of being rejected by him, and…
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