Luca 19:7

7 E tutti, veduto ciò, mormoravano, dicendo: Egli è andato ad albergare in casa d’un uomo peccatore.

Luca 19:7 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 19:7

And when they saw it
The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions read, "when they all saw this"; that is, as the Persic version, rather paraphrasing than translating, says, "the men and the multitude that were with him"; the "pharisaical" sort, the priests and Levites, of which there were great numbers in Jericho; (See Gill on Luke 10:31).

They all murmured;
as the Scribes and Pharisees did, at his eating with publicans and sinners, ( Luke 15:2 ) .

Saying, that he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner;
a notorious one, an abandoned profligate creature; one of the worst of sinners, as being a publican, and the chief of them; who had amassed vast riches to himself, by extortion and oppression; and they thought it was not agreeable to the character of an holy man, and a venerable prophet, which Christ bore, to go into such a man's house, eat at his table; and have familiar conversation with him; see ( Matthew 9:10 ) .

Luca 19:7 In-Context

5 E come Gesù fu giunto a quel luogo, alzò gli occhi, e lo vide, e gli disse: Zaccheo, scendi giù prestamente, perciocchè oggi ho ad albergare in casa tua.

6 Ed egli scese prestamente, e lo ricevette con allegrezza.

7 E tutti, veduto ciò, mormoravano, dicendo: Egli è andato ad albergare in casa d’un uomo peccatore.

8 E Zaccheo, presentatosi al Signore, gli disse: Signore, io dono la metà di tutti i miei beni a’ poveri; e se ho frodato alcuno, io gliene fo la restituzione a quattro doppi.

9 E Gesù gli disse: Oggi è avvenuta salute a questa casa; poichè anche costui è figliuol d’Abrahamo.