The tax collectors and prostitutes...
The tax collectors and prostitutes were sinners. So were the chief priests and elders. The difference was that the tax collectors and prostitutes knew they were sinners!
Noted preacher and organizer of The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, Howard Thurman said: "There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls."