Jesus Calls Levi

(Matthew 9:9–13, Mark 2:13–17)

After [this], [Jesus] went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth.“Follow Me,” He told him, 28 and [Levi] got up, left everything, [and] followed Him.

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Then Levi hosted a great banquet for [Jesus] at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them. 30 But their scribes and the Pharisees[fn] complained to [Jesus’] disciples“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

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Jesus answered“[It is] not the healthy [who] need a doctor, but the sick 32 vvv I have not come to call [the] righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

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