Luke 5:17
Healing and Forgiving a Paralytic
5:17 Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
Luke 5:21
5:21 Then
the experts in the law
and the Pharisees began to think
to themselves,
“Who is this man
who is uttering blasphemies?
Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Luke 7:29-30
7:29 (Now
all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors,
acknowledged
God’s justice, because they had been baptized
with John’s baptism.
7:30 However, the Pharisees
and the experts in religious law
rejected God’s purpose
for themselves, because they had not been baptized
by John.
)
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 15:1-2
The Parable of the Lost Sheep and Coin
15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.
15:2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Luke 18:11
18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this:
‘God, I thank
you that I am not like other people:
extortionists,
unrighteous people,
adulterers – or even like this tax collector.
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.”
Isaiah 65:5
65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself!
Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’
These people are like smoke in my nostrils,
like a fire that keeps burning all day long.
Matthew 21:28-32
The Parable of the Two Sons
21:28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
21:29 The boy answered, ‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went.
21:30 The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go.
21:31 Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!
21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
Mark 7:3
7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing,
holding fast to the tradition of the elders.