Luke 5:27-31
Luke 5:27
Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him.
Luke 5:28
So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.
Luke 5:29
Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them.
Luke 5:30
But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with such scum?”
Luke 5:31
Jesus answered them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.