7And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
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The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
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.
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Many, no doubt, were converted to the faith of Christ of whom no account is kept in the gospels; but the conversion of some, whose case had something in it extraordinary, is recorded, as this of Zaccheus. Christ passed through Jericho, Luke 19:1. This city was build under a curse, yet Christ honoured it with his presence, for the gospel takes away the curse . Though it ought not to have been built…
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