Biblical Treasury Luke 5:30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? A city missionary was one day visiting one of the lowest and most degraded courts in London, and a woman said something like this to him: — "You say you care for us, and are anxious about us; but it is a very easy thing for you to come from your clean, quiet home just to visit us. Would you come and bring your family, and live in this court, expose yourself to all these evils day by day, in order to lift us up?" The missionary felt he had hardly enough love for that: but Jesus dwelt with sinners, ate and drank with them. as well as died to save them. (Biblical Treasury.) Parallel Verses KJV: But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? |
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