and healthy before God, then in a funny way you are not his immediate concern. No, Jesus has come for the sinners. Who were the sinners in the room that day? Were they only those tax collectors? I wonder, when Jesus said to the Pharisees, “It’s not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick … I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners,” did these Pharisees consider, just for a moment, that they might be sick, that they might be sinners? Or did they simply think, “Good answer, Rabbi. Those
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