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Matthew 9:11
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When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said vnto his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicanes & sinners.
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?"
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked Jesus' followers, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, "Why does your Master eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
And when the Pharises sawe that, they saide to his disciples, Why eateth your master with Publicanes and sinners?
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?"
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?"
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
Some Pharisees asked Jesus' disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and other sinners?"
When the P'rushim saw this, they said to his talmidim, "Why does your rabbi eat with tax-collectors and sinners?"
And the Pharisees seeing [it], said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?
The Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with these people. They asked his followers, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and other sinners?"
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your master eat with publicans and sinners?
Some Pharisees saw this and asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with such people?"
And when they saw it, the Pharisees began to say to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
And seeing, the Pharisees said to His disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?
When the Perushim saw it, they said to his talmidim, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
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And when the Pharishee saw (it), they say to his disciples, Why doth your master eat with tribute-takers and sinners?
And when the Pharisees saw [fn] they said to his disciples, Why doth your Rabbi eat with publicans and sinners?
And when the Pharisees sawe it, they sayde vnto his disciples: Why eateth your maister with publicans and sinners?
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with the publicans and sinners?
When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?"
And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners?
The Pharisees noticed this, and they inquired of His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?"
And Farisees sien, and seiden to hise disciplis, Whi etith youre maister with pupplicans and synful men?
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Teacher eat with the publicans and sinners?
And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said to his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with such scum?"
The proud religious law-keepers saw this. They said to the followers of Jesus, "Why does your Teacher eat with men who gather taxes and with sinners?"
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
And, the Pharisees, observing it, began to say unto his disciples, - Wherefore, with tax-collectors and sinners, doth your Teacher eat?
And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners?
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
When the Pharises sawe that they sayd to hys disciples: why eateth youre master wt publicans and synners?
and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'
When the Pharises sawe that, they sayde to hys disciples: why eateth youre master with publicans and synners?
which the Pharisees observing, why, said they to his disciples, is your master so familiar with publicans and such loose people?
When the religious know-it-alls (Pharisees) seen this, they asked Jesus's cowboys, "Why does your trail boss eat with outlaws and no-accounts?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they said: Mark 2:16, Mark 9:14-16
Why: Matthew 11:19, Isaiah 65:5, Luke 5:30, Luke 15:1, Luke 15:2, Luke 19:7, 1 Corinthians 5:9-11, Galatians 2:15, Hebrews 5:2, 2 John 1:10
Reciprocal: Psalms 26:5 - will Jeremiah 8:22 - no physician Matthew 5:46 - publicans Matthew 16:1 - Pharisees Mark 2:15 - General Luke 7:34 - a friend James 3:1 - be
Cross-References
He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
"This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.
But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when the Pharisees saw it,.... The feast Matthew made, the guests that were invited, and particularly that Christ sat down to meat with such vile and wicked company; they and the Scribes, as Mark and Luke add, who generally were together, of the same complexion, equally enemies to Christ, and watchful observers of his conduct, and pretending to a more strict and religious way of life, were offended at all this;
and said to his disciples, which they chose to do, rather than to Christ himself; partly, because they were afraid to engage in a dispute with him, who had just given them a full proof of his omniscience, that he knew the very thoughts and reasonings of their minds, and had so confounded them already, both by his arguments and miracles; and partly, because they might think themselves a match for the disciples, and might hope to stumble and ensnare them, and prevail upon them to quit their profession, and leave following him, whom they would suggest could not be a good man, that was guilty of so evil an action; which, with them, was very unlawful and abhorrent, as that for which they accuse and reprove him,
why eateth your master with publicans and sinners? The "publicans", or gatherers of the Roman tax, toll, or tribute of any sort, whether Jews or Gentiles, were persons of a very infamous character; and, as here, so often, in Jewish writings, are ranked with "sinners", and those of the worst sort: so false swearing was allowed to be made
×××ר××× ×××ר××× ×××××ס××, "to murderers, and to robbers, and to publicans" o; and so "publicans and thieves" are joined together by Maimonides p, and a publican is said by him to be as a thief. And indeed this was not only the sense of the Jews, but also of other people, according to those words of Zeno the poet, ÏανÏÎµÏ ÏελÏναι
ÏανÏÎµÏ ÎµÎ¹Ïιν αÏÏÎ±Î³ÎµÏ q, "all publicans are all of them robbers": though this was not originally their character; for formerly the best of the Roman gentry were employed in this office, till by malpractices it became scandalous, when the meaner sort of people, yea, even vassals, were put into it r. Now, with such sort of men as these the Pharisees held it unlawful to have any sort of conversation; they expelled such their society, would not dwell with them in the same house, nor eat or drink with them; concerning which, their rules and methods are these;
"a companion, or friend, who becomes the king's collector, or a "publican", or the like, they drive him from society with them: if he abstains from his evil works, then he is as any other man s.''
Again,
"when the king's collectors enter into a house to dwell, all that are in the house are defiled t.''
Moreover, it is u said, that
"the former saints ate their common food with purity, i.e. with their hands washed, and took care of all defilements every day; and these were called Pharisees; and this sect was exceedingly holy, and was the way of piety; for such a man was separated, and he abstained from the rest of the people, and he did not touch them, ××× ×××× ×××©×ª× ×¢×××, "nor did he eat and drink with them".''
It was a general rule with them, that a clean person ought not to eat with an unclean, as they judged the common people to be; nay, that a Pharisee, who was unclean himself, might not eat with another person that was so, and which they boast of, as a great degree of holiness.
"Come and see, (say they w,) to what a pitch purity has arrived in Israel; for they not only teach, that a pure person may not eat with one that is defiled, but that one that has a "gonorrhoea" may not eat with another that has one, lest he should be used to transgress this way; and a Pharisee that has a "gonorrhoea" may not eat with a common person that has one, lest he should be used to do so.''
Hence they looked upon Christ and his disciples as such, and would insinuate that they were evil men, who had no regard to purity of life and conversation.
o Mis. Nedarim, c. 3. sect. 4. p Hilch. Gezela, c. 5. sect. 9. 11. q Apud Fabricii Graec. Biblioth. l. 2. c. 22. p. 755. r Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 2. c. 29. s Maimon. Mishcab & Moshab, c. 10. sect. 8. t lb. c. 12. sect. 12. u lb. Hilchoth Tumaot Okelim. c. 16. sect. 12. w T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 13. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Why eateth and drinketh ... - To eat and drink with others denotes intimacy and familiarity. The Pharisees, by asking this question, accused him of seeking the society of such people, and of being the companion of the wicked. The inference which they would draw was, that he could not be himself righteous, since he delighted in the company of abandoned people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 9:11. When the Pharisees saw it — He who, like a Pharisee, never felt himself indebted to infinite mercy for his own salvation, is rarely solicitous about the salvation of others. The grace of Christ alone inspires the soul with true benevolence. The self-righteous Pharisees considered it equal to legal defilement to sit in company with tax-gatherers and heathens. It is certain that those who fear God should not associate, through choice, with the workers of iniquity, and should only be found with them when transacting their secular business requires it, or when they have the prospect of doing good to their souls.
