Mark 2:7

2:7 “Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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.

Luke 15:2-7

15:2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

15:3 So Jesus told them this parable: 15:4 “Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it? 15:5 Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 15:6 Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 15:7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

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.”

Luke 19:10

19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 19:1

Jesus and Zacchaeus

19:1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it.

Colossians 2:15

2:15 Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Hebrews 12:3

12:3 Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.