Luke 15:1 meaning and explanation
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.
Luke 15:1, Berean Standard Bible
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Luke has just shown Jesus dining with a Pharisee and telling them a parable about who gets invited to a banquet. Now the crowds pressing in are the people the religious establishment had written off: tax collectors, who collected for Rome and were seen as collaborators, and sinners, a broad label for those living outside the law's expectations.
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