Matthew

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[@mamborickyclassicalmusicac4733]

wonderful

[@RKG64]

If any man will open the door, I will come in to him and sup with him, and he with Me.

[@qazyman]

kind of a cliff hanger.

[@bartolo498]

I wonder if there is an implied connotation for "sinners"? Would these also be people too close to the Romans (like the tax collectors), or simply people not as strict in law obedience as the Pharisees?

[@DaleBoyce2012]

I don't have any direct expertise, but NT scholars usually connote 'sinners' with sex workers. I suspect the authors of the gospels are using the term ironically, since all have sinned, including the Pharisees. I don't know if there was a first-century idiom that the scholars are using.

[@bartolo498]

@@DaleBoyce2012 thank you. Right, I thought of prostitutes as well and in fact realize only now that hamartolôn has no article, thus could be feminine. There are more specific terms (like porne) but it might be a euphemism or slightly less specific.