³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect^(A) complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”^(B)

³⁹ When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet,^(A) he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”

³ and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”^(A)

¹² For before certain men came from James,^(A) he used to eat with the Gentiles.^(B) But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.^(C)