The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
- BSB So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
- NKJV And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.”
- NASB And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to complain, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.”
- NLT This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!
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- Matt 9:11When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
- Luke 19:7When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
- Luke 7:39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
- Luke 5:30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
- Acts 11:3saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”
- Gal 2:12For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
- Luke 7:34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
- Luke 15:29–30But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
- 1 Cor 5:9–11I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
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