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
Who can forgive sins, but God only?
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured saying, This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed thus, God I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
Luke 19:7
And seeing it, they all murmured, saying, He is gone to be guest with a sinner.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But the spiritual man discerneth all things, while he himself is discerned by no man.
Hebrews 12:3
For consider him that endured such contradiction from sinners against himself, lest ye be weary and faint in your minds.

Publicans

Matthew 18:17
And if he will not hear them, tell it to the church; but if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as an heathen and a publican.

General references

Mark 7:5
Then the Pharisees ask him, Why walk not thy disciples, according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with defiled hands?