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 talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, and said, "This man welcomes irreligious people, and even eats with them!"
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw this, everyone complained, and said, "He has gone to stay with an irreligious man!"
1 Corinthians 2:15
But the spiritual man is alive to all true values, but his own true value no unspiritual man can see.
Hebrews 12:3
Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.
Publicans
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector.
General references
Mark 7:5
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"