“And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.”
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, this man welcomes sinners and eats with them — the mutterings (diegongyzon, grumbled, murmured) echo the Israelites' wilderness complaining. This man welcomes sinners and eats with them: the two-part accusation — welcomes (prosdechetai, receives, accepts as his own) and eats with (synestiein). The table fellowship is both the evidence and the problem.
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