Jesus Calls Matthew

(Mark 2:13–17, Luke 5:27–32)

9 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and [Matthew] got up [and] followed Him.

10 Later, as [Jesus] was dining at [Matthew’s] house, many tax collectors and sinners came [and] ate with [Him] and His disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why {does} your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

12 [On] hearing this, [Jesus] said, “[It is] not the healthy [who] need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go [and] learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[fn] For I have not come to call [the] righteous, but sinners.[fn]”