eat with sinners

¹⁰And it happened that, as he was sitting down to eat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners arrived, and they sat down to eat with Jesus and his disciples. ¹¹And the Pharisees, seeing this, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” ¹²But Jesus, hearing this, said: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, but those who have maladies. ¹³So then, go out and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the just, but sinners.”

¹¹But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.

¹⁵And it happened that, as he sat at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat at table together with Jesus and his disciples. For those who followed him were many. ¹⁶And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ¹⁷Jesus, having heard this, said to them: “The healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who have maladies do. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.”

²⁹And Levi made a great feast for him in his own house. And there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others, who were sitting at table with them. ³⁰But the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹And responding, Jesus said to them: “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who have maladies. ³²I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance.”

¹Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him. ²And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.”

³⁴The Son of man came, eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a voracious man and a drinker of wine, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners.’

¹⁹The Son of man came eating and drinking; and they say, ‘Behold, a man who eats voraciously and who drinks wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is justified by her sons.”

⁵And when he had arrived at the place, Jesus looked up and saw him, and he said to him: “Zacchaeus, hurry down. For today, I should lodge in your house.” ⁶And hurrying, he came down, and he received him joyfully. ⁷And when they all saw this, they murmured, saying that he had turned aside to a sinful man.

¹Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him. ²And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.” ³And he told this parable to them, saying: ⁴“What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it? ⁵And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.’

¹And having entered, he walked through Jericho. ²And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. And he was the leader of the tax collectors, and he was wealthy. ³And he sought to see Jesus, to see who he was. But he was unable to do so, because of the crowd, for he was small in stature. ⁴And running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree, so that he might see him. For he was to pass near there. ⁵And when he had arrived at the place, Jesus looked up and saw him, and he said to him: “Zacchaeus, hurry down. For today, I should lodge in your house.” ⁶And hurrying, he came down, and he received him joyfully.

¹¹But when Cephas had arrived at Antioch, I stood against him to his face, because he was blameworthy. ¹²For before certain ones arrived from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they had arrived, he drew apart and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. ¹³And the other Jews consented to his pretense, so that even Barnabas was led by them into that falseness. ¹⁴But when I had seen that they were not walking correctly, by the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in front of everyone: “If you, while you are a Jew, are living like the Gentiles and not the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to keep the customs of the Jews?”

¹⁶And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

³³Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.

¹²For before certain ones arrived from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they had arrived, he drew apart and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

²And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.”

¹⁰For the Son of man has come to seek and to save what had been lost.”