Christian Classics
‹ The Four-Fold Gospel

John William McGarvey · 127 of 194

Luke XV. 1, 2.

XCII.

Second Great Group of Parables.

(Probably in Peræa.)

Subdivision A.

Introduction.

C Luke XV. 1, 2.

c 1 Now all the and sinners were drawing hear unto him to hear. 2 And both the and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. [For see p. 76, and for eating with them see p. 349. The classed as “sinners” all who failed to observe the traditions of the elders, and especially their traditional rules of purification. It was not so much the wickedness of this class as their legal uncleanness that made it wrong to eat with them. Compare Gal. ii. 12, 13. In answer to their murmuring, Jesus spoke three parables, in which he set forth the yearnings of redemptive love. Having thus replied to the , Jesus continued his discourse, adding two other parables, concerning the right employment of goods, and ending with some teaching concerning offenses, etc. We defer comparing the parables until we have discussed them.]