Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 15:2

"And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." — Luke 15:2 (ASV)

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

Where bees come, wasps often come, too. This murmuring of the Pharisees and scribes was characteristic of their nature; they were so proud, so wrapped up in themselves, they thought so contemptuously of everybody else, that they dared even to despise him whose shoe's latchet they were not worthy to unloose. This man, they said, receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.