¹⁶ When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees^(A) saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”^(B)

¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”^(A)

¹¹ The Pharisee stood by himself^(A) and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

¹⁵ The person with the Spirit^(A) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

⁹ There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees^(A) stood up and argued vigorously. “We find nothing wrong with this man,”^(B) they said. “What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”^(C)