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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? he blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?
Isaiah 65:5
who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Luke 15:2
and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.
Luke 19:7
And all murmured when they saw it, saying, He has turned in to lodge with a sinful man.
1 Corinthians 2:15
but the spiritual discerns all things, and he is discerned of no one.
Hebrews 12:3
For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
Publicans
Matthew 18:17
But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.
General references
Mark 7:5
then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?