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Luke 15:2

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

KJV

καὶ διεγόγγυζον οἵ τε Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς λέγοντες ὅτι οὗτος ἁμαρτωλοὺς προσδέχεται καὶ συνεσθίει αὐτοῖς.

Greek NT

Et murmurabant pharisæi, et scribæ, dicentes : Quia hic peccatores recipit, et manducat cum illis.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γραμματεύς
grammateus
noun · 64×
διαγογγύζω
diagogguzo
verb · 2×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
προσδέχομαι
prosdechomai
verb · 14×
συνεσθίω
sunesthio
verb · 5×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
ἁμαρτωλός
amartolos
adjective · 47×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: τε | WH/Treg/NIV: τε
  • τεSBLGNT
  • τεWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§589Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God's own attitude toward them.367 He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet.368 But it was most especially by forgiving sins that Jesus placed the religious authorities of Israel on the horns of a dilemma. Were they not en…
§23Nor must one imagine that the Body of the Church, just because it bears the name of Christ, is made up during the days of its earthly pilgrimage only of members conspicuous for their holiness, or that it consists only of those whom God has predestined to eternal happiness. It is owing to the Savior's infinite mercy that place is allowed in His Mystical Body here below for those…

Cross-references

  • Acts 11:3 — Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
  • Acts 11:3 — Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
  • Gal 2:12 — For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
  • Gal 2:12 — For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
  • Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
  • Luke 5:30 — But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
  • Luke 7:34 — The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
  • Luke 7:34 — The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
  • Luke 7:39 — Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is
  • Luke 7:39 — Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is
  • Luke 15:28 — And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
  • Luke 15:29 — And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my frien
  • Luke 18:9 — And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
  • Luke 19:7 — And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
  • Luke 19:7 — And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
  • Matt 9:11 — And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
  • Ps 51:17 — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
  • Rom 15:7 — Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.