Bible verse
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.
Luke 15:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 15.
1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.
2 So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 Then Jesus told them this parable:
4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
KJV
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
ASV
Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him.
ERV
Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him for to hear him.
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