Why would this Jesus eat with sinners and tax collectors? What is he thinking? Doesn’t he care about his reputation? How can any decent person take him seriously when he treats the scum of the ...

“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.

“While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, ‘Why does ...

But Jesus’ meals with sinners were socially transgressive prophetic acts. When he ate with tax collectors, Jesus was sharing the table with collaborators of an oppressive occupying regime, who ...

2. No compassion The Pharisees lacked compassion for others. One time “Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, and many tax collectors and ‘sinners’ came and ate with Him and His disciples.

[Jesus] came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. 2 Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, 3 was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he ...

The story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19.1-9) brings home the curiosity of the reported charge that Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and promised them a place in the kingdom.

Yet, Jesus would eat meals with, educate and even chose a tax collector (Matthew) to be one of his disciples. In Luke 19:1-10, Jesus is passing through Jericho.

Jesus does not wait for sinners to change their lives before he welcomes them, said the preacher of the papal household.

Klee and Milani give us the Bible's take on paying taxes and how the tax collector was viewed by Jesus.