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Luke 5:30

28 and Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.

29 Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31 Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

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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.

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BSB
But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
KJV
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
WEB
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
ASV
And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with the publicans and sinners?
DARBY
And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?
BLB
And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you⁺ eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
ÅB
Og fariseerne og deres skriftlærde knurret mot hans disipler og sa: Hvorfor spiser og drikker dere med tollere og syndere?
OTB
Fariseerne og deres skriftlærde murret til hans disipler: «Hvorfor spiser og drikker dere med tollere og syndere?»
B1930
Og fariseerne og deres skriftlærde knurret mot hans disipler og sa: Hvorfor eter og drikker I med toldere og syndere?

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Acts 23:9

    A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

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  • Luke 15:1–2

    Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.

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  • Matthew 21:28–32

    But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

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  • Luke 7:29–30

    All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

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  • Luke 19:7

    And all who saw this began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man!”

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  • Luke 5:17

    One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.

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  • Luke 5:21

    But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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  • Mark 7:3

    Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

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