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Luke 5:30

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

KJV

καὶ ἐγόγγυζον οἱ Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς αὐτῶν πρὸς τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ λέγοντες· διατί μετὰ τῶν τελωνῶν καὶ ἁμαρτωλῶν ἐσθίετε καὶ πίνετε;

Greek NT

Et murmurabant pharisæi et scribæ eorum, dicentes ad discipulos ejus : Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducatis et bibitis ?

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γογγύζω
gogguzo
verb · 8×
γραμματεύς
grammateus
noun · 64×
διατί
diati
particle · 24×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
πίνω
pino
verb · 73×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
τελώνης
telones
noun · 21×
ἁμαρτωλός
amartolos
adjective · 47×
ἐσθίω
esthio
verb · 65×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

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SBLGNT: Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς αὐτῶν | WH/Treg/NIV: Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς αὐτῶν | RP: γραμματεῖς αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι
  • Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς αὐτῶνSBLGNT
  • Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς αὐτῶνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • γραμματεῖς αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ ΦαρισαῖοιRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§588Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves.364 Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."365 He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, t…

Cross-references

  • Isa 65:5 — Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
  • 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 7:37 — And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
  • Luke 15:2 — And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
  • 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?
  • Matt 15:1 — Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,