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Graphic-novel illustration of the designed Jesus reclining at Levi’s crowded table as the designed Matthew serves bread and scribes watch from the doorway.
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Mark 2:13-17

At Levi’s Table

Authority That Restores · Mark 2

Story guide: Levi leaves the booth and opens his table; Jesus receives people whom religious observers keep at a distance.

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13And he went out again beside the sea, and the whole crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.

14And as he was passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he says to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

15And it happened that he was reclining at table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they were following him.

16And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, were saying to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

17And when Jesus heard it, he says to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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