Matthew 11:19
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.
KJV
ἦλθεν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐσθίων καὶ πίνων, καὶ λέγουσιν· ἰδοὺ ἄνθρωπος φάγος καὶ οἰνοπότης, τελωνῶν φίλος καὶ ἁμαρτωλῶν. καὶ ἐδικαιώθη ἡ σοφία ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῆς.
Greek NT
Venit Filius hominis manducans, et bibens, et dicunt : Ecce homo vorax, et potator vini, publicanorum et peccatorum amicus. Et justificata est sapientia a filiis suis.
Vulgate
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.
ASV
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δικαιόω
dikaioo
verb · 39×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οἰνοπότης
oinopotes
noun · 2×
πίνω
pino
verb · 73×
σοφία
sophia
noun · 51×
τελώνης
telones
noun · 21×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
φάγος
phagos
noun · 2×
φίλος
philos
noun · 27×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἁμαρτωλός
amartolos
adjective · 47×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐσθίω
esthio
verb · 65×
ἔργον
ergon
noun · 169×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ἔργων | WH/Treg/NIV: ἔργων | RP: τέκνων
- ἔργων — SBLGNT
- ἔργων — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τέκνων — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
We should not hastily impute as crimes to the men of old time those actions which the Scripture has not condemned, but should rather seek in them types of things to come: an example of this in the incest committed by Lot. 1. When recounting certain matters of this kind respecting them of old time, the presbyter [before mentioned] was in the habit of instructing us, and saying: …
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. Having therefore called him, He also honored him with a very great honor by partaking straightway of his table; for in this way He would both give him good hope for the future, and lead him on to a greater confidence. For not in a long time, but at once, He healed his vice. And not with him only does He sit down to meat, but with many others also; although this very thing wa…
2. When therefore as well by the place, as by his garments, and by their concourse unto Him, He had delineated his character, He proceeds to bring in the prophet. For having said, Why went ye out? To see a prophet? Yea I say unto you, and more than a prophet; He goes on, For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before Your face, which shall prepare Your…
1. A dreadful thing is envy, beloved, a dreadful thing and a pernicious, to the enviers, not to the envied. For it harms and wastes them first, like some mortal venom deeply seated in their souls; and if by chance it injure its objects, the harm it does is small and trifling, and such as brings greater gain than loss. Indeed not in the case of envy only, but in every other, it …
1 And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In the preceding section, my revered brother Ambrosius, brother formed according to the Gospel, we have discussed, as far as is at present in our power, what the Gospel is, and what is the beginning in which the Word was, and what the Word is which was in the beginning. We now come to consider the next point in the work before …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:24 — But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
- Eph 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
- Luke 5:29 — And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
- Luke 7:29 — And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
- 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 7:35 — But wisdom is justified of all her children.
- Luke 14:1 — And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
- Luke 15:1 — Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
- 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 5:46 — For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
- Matt 9:10 — And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
- Matt 9:11 — And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
- Prov 17:24 — Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
- Ps 22:6 — But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
- Ps 92:5 — O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
- Rom 3:4 — God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.