Luke 15:1
New International Version
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.

New Living Translation
Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach.

English Standard Version
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.

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

Berean Literal Bible
Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him.

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

New King James Version
Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him.

New American Standard Bible
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near Jesus to listen to Him.

NASB 1995
Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him.

NASB 1977
Now all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him.

Amplified Bible
Now all the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews] were coming near Jesus to listen to Him.

Christian Standard Bible
All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Him.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But Tax Collectors and sinners were approaching to hear him.

Contemporary English Version
Tax collectors and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
NOW the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.

English Revised Version
Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him for to hear him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All the tax collectors and sinners came to listen to Jesus.

Good News Translation
One day when many tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus,

International Standard Version
Now all the tax collectors and sinners kept coming to listen to Jesus.

Literal Standard Version
And all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to Him, to hear Him,

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

New American Bible
The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to him,

NET Bible
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

New Revised Standard Version
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him.

New Heart English Bible
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him.

Weymouth New Testament
Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;

World English Bible
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,

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Context
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus. 2So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”…

Cross References
Matthew 5:46
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same?

Luke 5:29
Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Luke 5:29-32
And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them…

Luke 7:29
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Luke 13:30
And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

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Luke 15
1. The parable of the lost sheep;
8. of the piece of silver;
11. of the prodigal son.














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(1) Then drew near unto him . . .--Better, and all the publicans and the sinners were drawing near to hear Him. There is not quite the same direct sequence in the Greek as in the English, but what follows comes naturally after the mention of the "multitudes" in Luke 14:25. Publicans and sinners knew that Jesus had turned, as in indignation, from the house of the Pharisee, and this, it may be, gave them courage to approach Him.

Verses 1-32. - The Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the "lost," in which he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful. Verses 1, 2. - Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This Man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them; more accurately rendered, there were drawing near to him. This was now, in the last stage of the final journey, the usual state of things. The great outside- class came in crowds to listen to Jesus. These were men and women who, through home and family associations, through their occupations, which were looked upon with disfavour by the more rigid Jews, often no doubt through their own careless, indifferent character, had little or nothing to do with their religious and orthodox countrymen. Poor wanderers, sinners, thoughtless ones, no one cared for them, their present or their future. Do not these in every age make up the majority? The religious, so often Pharisees in heart, despising them, refusing to make allowances for them, looking on them as hopelessly lost ones. But at no time was this state of things so accentuated as when Jesus lived among men. Now, among such care. less irreligious men and women, are man whose hearts are very tender, very listen if the teacher of religion has Mud, wise words for them. The grave and severe, yet intensely pitiful and loving, doctrines of the Galilaean Master found such. His words were words of stern rebuke, and yet were full of hope, even for the hopeless. No man had ever spoken to them like this Man. Hence the crowds of publicans and sinners who were now ever pressing round the Master. But the teachers of Israel, the priestly order, the learned and rigid scribes, the honoured doctors Of the holy Law, - these were indignant, and on first thoughts not without reason, at the apparent preference felt for and special tenderness shown by Jesus to this great outside class of sinners. The three parables of this fifteenth chapter were the apologia of the Galilaean Master to orthodox Israel, but they appeal to an audience far greater than any enclosed in the coasts of the Holy Land, or living in that restless age,

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Now
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

all
πάντες (pantes)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

tax collectors
τελῶναι (telōnai)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5057: A publican, collector of taxes. From telos and oneomai; a tax-farmer, i.e. Collector of public revenue.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

sinners
ἁμαρτωλοὶ (hamartōloi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 268: Sinning, sinful, depraved, detestable. From hamartano; sinful, i.e. A sinner.

were
Ἦσαν (Ēsan)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

gathering around
ἐγγίζοντες (engizontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1448: Trans: I bring near; intrans: I come near, approach. From eggus; to make near, i.e. approach.

to listen to
ἀκούειν (akouein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.

[Jesus].
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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