11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"


In Context

8 When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to men.

9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples.

11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Matthew 9:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:11And when the Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:11And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:11And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with the publicans and sinners?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:11When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, |Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:11and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, 'Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why eats your Master with publicans and sinners?