Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of t...

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Matthew 9:11:
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, 'Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?'
(NIV)
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, Why does your Master eat with tax collectors and those [preeminently] sinful?
(AMP)
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
(KJV)

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Luke 15:1:
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
(NIV)
NOW THE tax collectors and [notorious and especially wicked] sinners were all coming near to [Jesus] to listen to Him.
(AMP)
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
(KJV)

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