Eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners

REFLECTIONS TODAY In the Greco-Roman society, as well as among the Jews, eating in a banquet mirrors the sharing in the status of those invited. To eat with tax collectors would be unthinkable for the Pharisees and their scribes who consider themselves as perushim or “separated” from people who are …

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