Luke 5:30 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁰But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Luke 5:30 —

Old words in this verse

publican: — tax collector.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 5:17
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Acts 23:9
And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
Luke 15:1-2
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. …
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
Mark 7:3
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Topics

Jesus, the Christ Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-35)

All this, except the last verse, we had before in Matthew and Mark; it is not the story of any miracle in nature wrought by our Lord Jesus, but it is an account of some of the wonders of his grace, which, to those who understand things aright, are no less cogent proofs of Christ’s being sent of God than the other. I. It was a wonder of his grace that he would call a publican, from the receipt of c…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 30)

30. their scribes--a mode of expression showing that Luke was writing for Gentiles. (See on Mt 9:14-17.) The incongruities mentioned in Lu 5:36-38 were intended to illustrate the difference between the genius of the old and new economies, and the danger of mixing up the one with the other. As in the one case supposed, “the rent is made worse,” and in the other, “the new wine is spilled,” so by a m…