27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, |
28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. |
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. |
30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" |
31 Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. |
32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." |