Luke 15:2
1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.
So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 Then Jesus told them this parable:
4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
- KJV
- And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
- WEB
- The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
- ASV
- And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
- DARBY
- and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This [man] receives sinners and eats with them.
- BLB
- And both the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling, saying, “This [man] receives sinners and eats with them.”
- ÅB
- Og både fariseerne og de skriftlærde knurret seg imellom og sa: Denne mann tar imot syndere og spiser sammen med dem!
- OTB
- Og fariseerne og de skriftlærde klaget og sa: «Denne mannen tar imot syndere og spiser med dem.»
- B1930
- Og både fariseerne og de skriftlærde knurret sig imellem og sa: Denne mann tar imot syndere og eter sammen med dem!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 9:11
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Read in contextLuke 7:39
When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”
Read in contextLuke 19:7
And all who saw this began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man!”
Read in contextLuke 5:30
But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Read in contextActs 11:3
and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
Read in contextGalatians 2:12
For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
Read in contextLuke 7:34
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Read in contextLuke 15:29–30
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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