ZephBonkerer
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The tax collectors and prostitutes were entering in because they repented?
Repentance is part of it. But in this context I would read "tax collectors and prostitutes" as "the despised". In those days, the Pharisees were seen as the gold standard of righteousness. But Jesus told a very different story, and they hated Him for it.
Jesus was teaching that the kind of people that will enter the Kingdom of Heaven are not going to be the rootin' tootin' high-falutin' religious types who love to be seen on their high horse. Oftentimes, those who will enter are going to be the despised, like the woman at the well.
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