Luke 19:7 meaning and explanation

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

Luke 19:7, Berean Standard Bible

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The crowd has just watched Jesus single out Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who had grown rich in a role that many Jews saw as collaboration with Rome and as a cover for extortion. Their grumbling echoes the Old Testament complaints against God's people and Luke's earlier scenes of objection to Jesus eating with sinners.

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