CHAPTER XV.

Publicans and sinners draw near to hear our Lord, at which the

Pharisees are offended, 1, 2.

Christ vindicates his conduct in receiving them by the parable

of the lost sheep, 3-7.

The parable of the lost piece of money, 8-10;

and the affecting parable of the prodigal son, 11-32.

NOTES ON CHAP. XV.

Verse Luke 15:1. Publicans and sinners] τελωναι και αμαρτωλοι, tax-gatherers and heathens; persons who neither believed in Christ nor in Moses. Luke 7:36. Concerning the tax-gatherers, Matthew 5:46.

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