MATTHEW 11:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.”
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds. Jesus' table-fellowship ministry — eating and drinking with those excluded from polite society — was met with the charge of moral disorder. The friend of tax collectors and sinners accusation is what Jesus has been called (Matthew 9:11), and here he embraces the description ironically. Wisdom is justified by her deeds: the ultimate vindication of both John's ministry and Jesus' comes not through social approval but through the evidence of what their work has produced.
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