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Luke 15:1

Luke 15:1
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Publicans and sinners - See the notes at Mat 9:10.

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 15:1-10

Here is, I. The diligent attendance of the publicans and sinners upon Christ's ministry. Great multitudes of Jews went with him (Luk 14:25), with such an assurance of admission into the kingdom of God…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Luke 15:1-32

Luk 9:51 to Luk 18:31. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance.

This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical…