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
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Bible References
How
Mark 2:7
Why does this thus speak blasphemies? who can remit sins but the one God
Isaiah 65:5
Saying, Come near to thyself; thou shalt not touch upon me, for I was clean to thee. These a smoke in my wrath, a fire burning all the day.
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, That this receives the sinful, and eats together with them.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.
Luke 19:7
And all they having seen, murmured, saying, That he entered in to rest with a sinful man.
1 Corinthians 2:15
And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one.
Hebrews 12:3
For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls.
Publicans
Matthew 18:17
And if he refuse hearing them, speak to the church: and if he refuse hearing the church, let him be to thee as of the nations and a publican.
General references
Mark 7:5
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Wherefore do not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?