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Luke 5:30
But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Pharisees and their scribes confront Jesus’ disciples during Levi’s banquet, where a large crowd of tax collectors and others are eating with Jesus.
The words — ἐγόγγυζον (egonguzon) = were grumbling, a verb describing the Pharisees’ vocal complaint about the disciples’ table fellowship.
The thread — The same groups appear in Luke 15:1, where tax collectors and sinners gather around Jesus, and in Acts 23:9, where Pharisaic scribes sharply contend in a council.
Why it lands — The text records a direct challenge to the disciples’ practice of sharing meals with socially and religiously marginalized people, forcing a reckoning with who qualifies for table fellowship.
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The Greek words
King James Version
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
Cross-references
- Luke 15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.
- Acts 23:9 A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
- Matthew 21:28 But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
- Mark 7:3 Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
- Luke 5:17 One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
- Luke 5:21 But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
- Luke 7:29 All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
- Luke 19:7 And all who saw this began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man!”
- Isaiah 65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
- Luke 7:34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’