Luke 15:1-2

Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people--even eating with them!

 

Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach.

Mark 2:15  Later, Levi [Matthew] invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus' followers.) [see also Matthew 9:10]

Luke 5:29  Later, Levi [Matthew] held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi's fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them.

 

This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people--even eating with them! 

Matthew 11:19  "The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, 'He's a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!' But wisdom is shown to be right by its results." [see also Luke 7:34]

Mark 2:16  But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat with such scum?" [see also Matthew 9:11, Luke 5:30]

Mark 7:5-8  So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, "Why don't your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony." Jesus replied, "You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.' [Isaiah 29:13] For you ignore God's law and substitute your own tradition."

Luke 5:21  But the Pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves, "Who does he think he is? That's blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!" [see verses 17-26]

Acts 11:2-3  But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers criticized him. "You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate with them!" they said. [see verses 10:1-11:18]

Galatians 2:12-13  When he [Peter] first arrived, he ate with the Gentile Christians, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some friends of James came, Peter wouldn't eat with the Gentiles anymore. He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision. As a result the Jewish Christians followed Peter's hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. [see verses 11-21]          

 

(brackets are mine)

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