Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, and said, "This man welcomes irreligious people, and even eats with them!"
New American Standard Bible
Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, “This man receives sinners and
King James Version
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Holman Bible
And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners
International Standard Version
But the Pharisees and the scribes kept complaining, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
A Conservative Version
And the Pharisees and the scholars murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
American Standard Version
And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Amplified
Both the Pharisees and the scribes began muttering and complaining, saying, “This man accepts and welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
An Understandable Version
And the Pharisees and experts in the law of Moses both complained, saying, "This man welcomes worldly people and [even] eats with them."
Anderson New Testament
And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receives sinners, and eats with them.
Bible in Basic English
And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.
Common New Testament
And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."
Daniel Mace New Testament
at which the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, this man gives access to men of bad character, and eats with them.
Darby Translation
and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
Godbey New Testament
And the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying, that, He receives sinners, and eats with them.
John Wesley New Testament
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured saying, This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.
Julia Smith Translation
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, That this receives the sinful, and eats together with them.
King James 2000
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And both the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!"
Modern King James verseion
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the Pharisees, and scribes murmured, saying, "He received to his company sinners, and eateth with them."
Moffatt New Testament
but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"
Montgomery New Testament
And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"
NET Bible
But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
New Heart English Bible
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
Noyes New Testament
And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Sawyer New Testament
And both the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
The Emphasized Bible
and both the Pharisees and the Scribes were murmuring, saying, This man, unto sinners, giveth welcome, and eateth with them.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man entertains sinners, and eateth with them.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law found fault. "This man always welcomes outcasts, and takes meals with them!" they complained.
Webster
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Weymouth New Testament
and this led the Pharisees and the Scribes indignantly to complain, saying, "He gives a welcome to notorious sinners, and joins them at their meals!"
Williams New Testament
And so the Pharisees and scribes continually grumbled, and said, "This fellow is welcoming notorious sinners, and even eating with them."
World English Bible
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
Worrell New Testament
And both the scribes and the Pharisees were murmuring, saying, "This Man receiveth sinners and eateth with them!"
Worsley New Testament
And the pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man entertaineth wicked persons, and eateth with them.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'
Themes
Bigotry » Instances of » Of keeping company with sinners
Christ » Faith in, great » Faultfinding against
Jews, the » Distinction of castes amongst, noticed
Outcasts received » Despised sinners
Pharisees » Hypocrisy of, reproved » By jesus
Pharisees » Christ » Condemned by, for associating with sinners
Repentance » The sinner that repents
Shepherds » Illustrative » (searching out straying sheep,) of Christ seeking the lost
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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Houtos
Prosdechomai
References
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 15:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Parable Of The Lost Sheep
1 All the tax-collectors and irreligious people were crowding up to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, and said, "This man welcomes irreligious people, and even eats with them!" 3 So in speaking to them he used this figure:
Cross References
Matthew 9:11
And the Pharisees observed it, and they said to his disciples, "Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"
Luke 5:30
And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled about it to his disciples, and said, "Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"
Luke 19:7
And when they saw this, everyone complained, and said, "He has gone to stay with an irreligious man!"
Luke 7:39
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."
Acts 11:3
charging him with having visited and eaten with men who were not Jews.
Galatians 2:12
For until some people came from James, he used to eat with the heathen, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof, for fear of the party of circumcision.
Luke 7:34
Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!'
Luke 15:29-30
And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.