Luke 15:2
Good News Translation
the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law started grumbling, "This man welcomes outcasts and even eats with them!"

New Revised Standard Version
And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Contemporary English Version
So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, "This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them."

New American Bible
but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Luke 15:29,30 And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends. . . .

Luke 5:30 But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Luke 7:34,39 The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners. . . .

Luke 19:7 And when all saw it, they murmured, saying, that he was gone to be a guest with a man that was a sinner.

Matthew 9:11 And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners?

Acts 11:3 Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them?

1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. . . .

Galatians 2:12 For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.

Context
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
1Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them. 3And he spoke to them this parable, saying:…
Cross References
Matthew 9:11
And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners?

Matthew 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

Luke 5:30
But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Luke 15:3
And he spoke to them this parable, saying:

1 Timothy 1:15
A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

Luke 15:1
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