This was according to prophecy (Luke 1:15, Luke 7:28)
John 7:33 For John the Baptist came ((neither)) eating bread (( nor )) drinking wine;
and ye say, He hath a devil.
John 7:34 The Son of man ((is come)) eating (( and )) drinking;
and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, (( and )) a winebibber,
a friend of publicans and sinners!
Which is again according to what the Lord would do the charge are according to the highlights (in contrast between John) sent before Christ and Christ (who come after John) and the eating and drinking accusations (as in truth Christ come doing so and what their wisdom called these things (thats why) ... YE SAY (in accord) which is the same as here
The befreinding of sinners is the charge against him according to the same
Psalm 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD:
therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
There is (right there) his goodness and his uprightness being charged (falsely) in their doing just this
To slap on a sexual deviance charge againt the Lord (in their own sayings) is wrong, thats a false charge. One they didnt even make (through observing him).
They observed the eating (he come doing) and the drinking (he come doing) and spilled out the whole gluttonous (according to the flesh) and winebidder (according to the flesh) charges in their own after the flesh judgments (in their wisdom).
So also was the freind of sinners, which is an accusation of the very goodness and uprightness of God (in that doing) their own wisdom missed.
But they never even attributed Jesus doing something sexually immorral but rather would test him in their own thoughts (as he knew them) in respects to their perception of what he was doing, and what he should have known (according to him) like when at the house of a pharisee, saying This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
But again, that charge of befriending sinners belongs to him
Psalm 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD:
therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Not any sexual immorality