“The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!”
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners — the Son of Man's opposite practice (eating and drinking, table fellowship with the excluded) is met with the opposite accusation: glutton, drunkard, friend of sinners. The generation's rejection of Jesus uses the moral failure categories. Both accusations are the rationalization of rejection — the generation has already decided to reject, and any behavior becomes the grounds for rejection.
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