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The Life and Ministry of Jesus is a collection of lessons on the life and ministry of Christ, taking a chronological look at His miraculous existence by blending the four Gospels into a single story. Douglas Redford compiles the most insightful, most helpful portions of commentary on certain key passages that have been covered on different occasions throughout the history of the Standard Lesson...

10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples. Apparently Matthew hosted a kind of dinner party so that he could introduce some of his friends to Jesus. The place was filled with various outcasts of Jewish society—perhaps the only friends a tax collector could claim as his own, being an outcast himself. These people would have included others who made their living in a disreputable
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