30 And the Pharisees and their scribes began to complain[a] to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” 31 And Jesus answered and[b] said to them, “Those who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those who are sick.[c] 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:30 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to complain”)
  2. Luke 5:31 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Luke 5:31 Literally “having badly”