Luke 15:1

Now the tax gatherers and sinners were all approaching him to listen to him,

Jesus was at table indoors, and many taxgatherers and sinners had come to be guests with him and his disciples.

Tell me what you think. A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard to-day';

Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them.

(On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John;

Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

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