¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard,^(A) a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ”^(B) Yet wisdom is vindicated^[a] by her deeds.’^[b]

³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes^(A) were complaining to his disciples, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ’

² And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, ‘This man welcomes sinners^(A) and eats with them.’

¹⁵ We are Jews by birth and not ‘Gentile sinners’,