Mark 2:16

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?

How

Hebrews 12:3

Publicans

Matthew 18:17

General references

Mark 7:5

Bible References

How

Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?'

Who are saying, 'Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

and having seen it, they were all murmuring, saying -- 'With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'

and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

Publicans

And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

General references

Then question him do the Pharisees and the scribes, 'Wherefore do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands do eat the bread?'