The Call of Levi; Eating with Sinners

5:27 After105 this, Jesus106 went out and saw a tax collector107 named Levi108 sitting at the tax booth.109 “Follow me,”110 he said to him. 5:28 And he got up and followed him, leaving everything111 behind.112

5:29 Then113 Levi gave a great banquet114 in his house for Jesus,115 and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting116 at the table with them. 5:30 But117 the Pharisees118 and their experts in the law119 complained120 to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”121 5:31 Jesus122 answered them, “Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.123 5:32 I have not come124 to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”125