The Parable of the Two Sons
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
Jesus teaching was attqctive to tax collectors and prostitutes because they were the outcast of the society, so they need to repent in order to be with God. They saw themselves as sinful, and they need to accept God. While the righteous ones felt they knew God and they was no need for repentance.



By: Carol Parris
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
God is forgivable that made the tax collectors and prostitutes attracted to His teachings. He loves you whoever you are as long as you repent, believe and trust HIM.



By: reybeth
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
beacuse of these two character have sinful life, they dont want so , when they found Jesus , a hope of new life arise.



By: ricky lee
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
when a ``clean man`` see water he does not desire a was because he sees himself as clean but when a man covered with mud sees water he definately would want to wash himself in it becuase he knows he is dirty.the tax collectors and prostitute were the rejected of society and here is Jesus telling them that they can be reconciled to God and accepted by Him what a wonderful word they were hearing.



By: mudiaga ifeta
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
Jesus came here for the sinners not for the righteous.... so the teachings of Jesus touched their hearts.



By: susan baligod
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
A very good example to show how important for us to have faith in God. As long as we have faith in God and being obedient to God`s law, God will accept us no matter we did and who we were in the past.



By: mary yu
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
The Tax collectors and the prostitudes know that they are sinners and they come back to repent to be forgiven while the Pharisees feel holier than they are and keep walking proudly in market places.



By: Bol Joseph Agau
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
Socially the tax collectors and prostitutes were not accepted. But they believed Jesus` teachings without a doubt, whereas everybody else did not.



By: Harriet Costello
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What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes?
it is because it was percieved that tax collectors and prostitutes were so evil that they were destined to hell but here is Jesus teaching the people that since they''tax collectors & prostitutes'' repented and accepted the truth then they shall enter the Kingdom of God, so this gave them a new perspective that they too could be forgiven their sins and weakedness. thank you!



By: Silas Kaunda Matiku
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Self righteousness: Is it a virtue or a vice in entering the Kingdom of God?



By: Robert Ochen-Chagara
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The Parable of the Two Sons

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.' He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went. He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go. Which of the two did the will of his father?"
They said to him, "The first."
Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Matthew 21:28-32
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