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 speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
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 you that I am not like other menextortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it they all murmured, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."
1 Corinthians 2:15
But the spiritual man judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
Hebrews 12:3
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.

Publicans

Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

General references

Mark 7:5
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with impure hands?"