The Call of Levi; Eating with Sinners

2:13 Jesus24 went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them. 2:14 As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth.25 “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him. 2:15 As Jesus26 was having a meal27 in Levi’s28 home, many tax collectors29 and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 2:16 When the experts in the law30 and the Pharisees31 saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”32 2:17 When Jesus heard this he said to them, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.33 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”