The Call of Levi
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, 5:27–39 Mt 9:9–17; Mk 2:14–22 and he said to him, "Follow me."28 So, leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him.
29 Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them. 5:29 Lk 15:130 But the Pharisees and their scribes 5:30 Mk 2:16; Ac 23:9 were complaining to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? "
31 Jesus replied to them, "It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick.32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."