| Jesus Calls Levi |
| Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd
came to him, and he began to teach them. As he walked along, he saw Levi
son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," Jesus
told him, and Levi got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner
at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him
and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers
of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax
collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors
and 'sinners'?" On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy
who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous,
but sinners."
Mark 2; 13-17 (RSV)
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