Luke 15:1-2

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus. So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Luke 15

3 songs meet this passage

  • “It looks like you might be one of us”

    Heathens · twenty one pilots

    strains against Luke 15:1-2

    The song frames belonging among the broken as inevitable and ominous, while Jesus welcomed sinners and outcasts not as a trap but as grace.

  • “I've got friends in low places”

    Friends in Low Places · Garth Brooks

    resonates with Luke 15:1-2

    Jesus himself kept company with the overlooked and disreputable; the song's pride in its own 'low' crowd has a faint echo of that solidarity, though without any redemptive aim.

  • “As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand”

    Three Wooden Crosses · Randy Travis

    resonates with Luke 15:1-2

    The preacher's final act mirrors Jesus' own pattern of reaching toward the outcast and sinner with grace, not judgment.

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