"But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."

To Pharisees people who practiced certain things, like prostitution and tax-collection, were sinners. The Pharisees added many man-made rules (traditions) to the Mosaic Law. Anyone who did not respect those rules were called sinners.

The problem:
Prostitution was sinful, but tax-collection and not respecting man-made traditions was not necessarily a sin.

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