Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 19:7

7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be a guest with a man that is a sinner.

All here must not be taken for every individual Person, that is not to be presumed either of all the Inhabitants of Iericho, or much less of all that were in Christs Company, amongst others Mary Magdalene was at this time in his Company, who had no reason to Murmur at that. But of what sort of People were these Murmurers? The voice is the voice of Pharisees, who had often quarrelled at Christ for this▪ and of their Disciples for there were multitudes of the Jews that had Drunk in the Superstitions of that Faction, and were more afraid of keeping Company with Sinners, than themselves being so. Of having fellowship with their excomm[illegible: 1 letter]nicates in their houses, then of having followship with their or greater works of darkness. Our Saviour had before answered this Civil, he will now come to shew them they were mistaken in the Man. That he whom they counted a Sinner, was a better Man then themselves generally were.