Then drew near unto him all the tax collectors and sinners to hear him.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
Tell me, O Pharisee, why do you grumble because Christ did not scorn to be with publicans and sinners, but purposely provided for them this means of salvation? To save people, he yielded himself to emptiness, became like us, and clothed himself in human poverty. Commentary on Luke, Homily