The Call of Levi (Matthew)

Luke 5:27-32

Later Yeshua went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting in his tax-collection booth; and he said to him, "Follow me!"

He got up, left everything and followed him.

Levi gave a banquet at his house in Yeshua's honor, and there was a large group of tax-collectors and others at the table with them.

The P'rushim and their Torah-teachers protested indignantly against his talmidim, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners?"

It was Yeshua who answered them: "The ones who need a doctor aren't the healthy but the sick.

I have not come to call the `righteous,' but rather to call sinners to turn to God from their sins."