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27 After this He went out and noticed a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the Toll office; and He said to him, "Follow me." 28 He rose, left everything, and followed Him. 29 Levi also gave a great entertainment at his house in honour of Jesus, and there was a large party of tax-gatherers and others at table with them. 30 This led the Pharisees and Scribes of their party to expostulate with His disciples and ask, "Why are you eating and drinking with these tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?" 31 But Jesus replied to them, "It is not men in good health who require a physician, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners." Luke 5:27-32, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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