<p>9:11 <em>And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples: Why does your Teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?</em>- To break your bread with someone, to eat together, was a religious act in Palestinian Jewish society. The Lord broke His bread with sinners in order to bring them to repentance; not because He considered they had cleared some kind of bar of moral and doctrinal acceptability. His table was open, radically so, and so should ours be.</p>