New Testament · SCRIPTURE
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?”
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And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
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When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?
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And having seen, the Pharisees were saying to His disciples, “Why does your⁺ Teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?”
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Matthew 9
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.”
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