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The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, `Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!`
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The Unpleasable Heart
Commentators highlight that critics rejected both John the Baptist's severe, ascetic lifestyle and Jesus's normal, sociable one. This reveals that the issue was not with God's messengers but with the hardened hearts of the audience. As one source puts it, they were like fickle children, determined to find fault regardless of the approach, thereby rejecting God's plan for them.
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19th Century
Baptist
And ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified of all her children.
Attention now turns to the contrast between the response of the people (cf. comment on 1:17) and of their hostile leaders to John and Jesus. The ta…
16th Century
Protestant
The Son of man came. To eat and drink means here nothing more than to live in the customary way, as Christ says that John cam…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The son of man is come eating and drinking That is, eating bread and drinking wine, as other people do; and shuns no…
Presbyterian
To His miracles in the kingdom of nature, Christ adds this one in the kingdom of grace: To the poor the gospel is preached. This clearly p…
