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And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

And {G2532} when the Pharisees {G5330} saw {G1492} it, they said {G2036} unto his {G846} disciples {G3101}, Why {G1302} eateth {G2068} your {G5216} Master {G1320} with {G3326} publicans {G5057} and {G2532} sinners {G268}?

When the P'rushim saw this, they said to his talmidim, "Why does your rabbi eat with tax-collectors and sinners?"

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 11:19 (10 votes)

    The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

  • Luke 5:30 (8 votes)

    But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

  • Mark 2:16 (7 votes)

    And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

  • Luke 15:1 (7 votes)

    ¶ Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

  • Luke 15:2 (7 votes)

    And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:9 (6 votes)

    ¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

  • 1 Corinthians 5:11 (6 votes)

    But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.