Cross references

Luke 15:2

So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Luke 15:2 BSB

Luke 15:2 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 9:11 (13 votes) and Luke 7:39 (8 votes). 25 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Psalm 51 to Jude 1.

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Which verses does Luke 15:2 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Matthew 9:1113 votes

    When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

  2. Luke 7:398 votes

    When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”

  3. Luke 19:78 votes

    And all who saw this began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man!”

  4. Luke 5:306 votes

    But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

  5. Acts 11:35 votes

    and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

  6. Luke 7:344 votes

    The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

  7. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

  8. But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

  9. I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. …

Which verses point to Luke 15:2?

The 10 strongest of 25.