Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Publicans
General references
Bible References
How
Mark 2:7
Why does this man thus speak impiously? Who can forgive sins but God only?
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receives sinners, and eats with them.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying: He has gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But the spiritual man discerns all things; yet he himself is discerned by no one.
Hebrews 12:3
For consider him that endured such opposition of sinners against himself, lest you become weary and despondent in your minds.
Publicans
Matthew 18:17
But if he refuse to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he also refuse to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen man and a publican.
General references
Mark 7:5
then the Pharisees and the scribes asked him: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?