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
"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"
Luke 15:2
but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.
Luke 19:7
But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.
1 Corinthians 2:15
The spiritual man, again, can read the meaning of everything; and yet no one can read what he is.
Hebrews 12:3
Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.
Publicans
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.
General references
Mark 7:5
Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"