Luke 5:27-32

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁷ And after this, Jesus went out and looked [attentively] at a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, ^[a]Join Me as a disciple and side with My party and accompany Me.

²⁸ And he forsook everything and got up and followed Him [becoming His disciple and siding with His party].

²⁹ And Levi (Matthew) made a great banquet for Him in his own house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others who were reclining [at the table] with them.

³⁰ Now the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling against Jesus’ disciples, saying, Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and [preeminently] sinful people?

³¹ And Jesus replied to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

³² I have not come to arouse and invite and call the righteous, but ^[b]the erring ones (^[c]those not free from sin) to repentance [^[d]to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins].