Luke 15:29-30
15:29 but he answered
his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave
for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet
you never gave me even a goat
so that I could celebrate with my friends!
15:30 But when this son of yours
came back, who has devoured
your assets with prostitutes,
you killed the fattened calf
for him!’
Luke 5:30
5:30 But
the Pharisees
and their experts in the law
complained
to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Luke 7:34
7:34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him,
a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Luke 7:39
7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this,
he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet,
he would know who and what kind of woman
this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”
Luke 19:7
19:7 And when the people
saw it, they all complained,
“He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
Matthew 9:11
9:11 When the Pharisees
saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Acts 11:3
11:3 saying, “You went to
uncircumcised men and shared a meal with
them.”
Acts 11:1
Peter Defends His Actions to the Jerusalem Church
11:1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.
Colossians 1:9-11
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
1:10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
Galatians 2:12
2:12 Until
certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this
and separated himself
because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.