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Luke 5:29-32
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Luke 5:29-32
The Message
29-30 Levi gave a large dinner at his home for Jesus. Everybody was there, tax men and other disreputable characters as guests at the dinner. The Pharisees and their religion scholars came to his disciples greatly offended. “What is he doing eating and drinking with misfits and ‘sinners’?”
31-32 Jesus heard about it and spoke up, “Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I’m here inviting outsiders, not insiders—an invitation to a changed life, changed inside and out.”
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Luke 5:29-32
New International Version
Luke 5:29-32
New International Version
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors(A) and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect(B) complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”(C)
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”(D)
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