Let us focus first on the novelty of an offer of forgiveness. The tax collectors and sinners, Perrin assures us, 'responded in glad acceptance' to Jesus' saying that they would be forgiven,l05 But was ...

Tax collectors were hated in biblical times and were regarded as sinners. They were Jews who ... and abused this system by taking far too much. Jesus wants to teach people the importance of ...

A Nigerian Catholic priest has sent a message to Pastor David Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministries, countering a sermon he preached and said Jesus hates poverty.

Tax collectors were not popular in Jesus’ day and were commonly regarded as sinners. Tax collectors worked for the Romans, the occupying force in Palestine at the time. They collected taxes from ...

Lewis Lawes became the warden at Sing Sing in 1921. At the time it was one of the harshest prisons in the United States. When ...

One time “Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, and many tax collectors and ‘sinners’ came and ate with Him and His ...

'But when he came to himself, he said, "How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, ...