Bible verse
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Matthew 9:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 9.
7 And the man got up and went home.
8 When the crowds saw this, they were filled with awe and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
9 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
10 Later, as Jesus was dining at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Him and His disciples.
11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
14 At that time John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do not fast?”
15 Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
KJV
And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
ASV
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?
ERV
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with the publicans and sinners?
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