Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 5:30 in context
Luke 5:27–33
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After these things he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”
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He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
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Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
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Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
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Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
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I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
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They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
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