At Levi’s Table

At His Word · Luke 5

Story guide: Levi leaves the tax booth and hosts a banquet. Jesus answers the criticism of his table fellowship by describing his call to sinners.

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27And after these things he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.”

28And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.

29And Levi made a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at table with them.

30And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31And Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but those who are sick do.”

32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a reorientation toward God.

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