Luke 15:1 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him.

KJV

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

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Commentary

5 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

Thou hadst learnt by what went before not to be occupied by the business of this world, not to prefer transitory things to eternal. But because the frailty of man can not keep a firm step in so slippery a world, the good Physician has shown thee a remedy even after falling; the merciful Judge has not denied the hope of pardon; hence it is added, Then drew near unto him all the publicans.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

All the publicans - That is, all who were in that place. It seems our Lord was in some town of Galilee of the Gentiles, from whence he afterward went to Jerusalem, chap. xvii, 11.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Publicans and sinners - Τελωναι και ἁμαρτωλοι, tax-gatherers and heathens; persons who neither believed in Christ nor in Moses. See the note on Luk 7:36. Concerning the tax-gatherers, see the note on Mat 5:46.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3410: “Christ and His Hearers” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1914)

SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS always seeks to blame others and to whitewash itself. The group that stood nearest to Christ in preaching was composed of two classes of persons—the publicans, or tax-gatherers and the open sinners. Now the Pharisee, when he came to speak of these two classes, called them by one name, lumping them all under one description and calling them all sinners.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἦσαν	Ēsan	Were	G1510 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to Him	G846 →
ἐγγίζοντες	engizontes	drawing near	G1448 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
τελῶναι	telōnai	tax collectors	G5057 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ἁμαρτωλοὶ	hamartōloi	sinners	G268 →
ἀκούειν	akouein	to hear	G191 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	Him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Timothy 1:15
This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
leads to
- Mark 2:17
  On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- John 3:16–17
  For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 12:47
  As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
- John 1:12
  But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
Through
Ezekiel 18:27
But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
leads to
- Ezekiel 18:21
  But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Isaiah 1:18
  “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- Isaiah 55:7
  Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely…