Thematic Bible: Faultfinding against


Thematic Bible



And both the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!"


And [when they] saw [it], the Pharisees began to say to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

But [when] the Pharisees saw [it], they said to him, "Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not permitted to do on the Sabbath!"

"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat {a meal}."

And the scribes of the Pharisees, [when they] saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, began to say to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

And they saw that some of his disciples were eating their bread with unclean--that is, unwashed--hands.

And [when they] saw [it], they all began to complain, saying, "He has gone in to find lodging with a man who is a sinner!"

Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"