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29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them. 30 But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with such scum?[a]

31 Jesus answered them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. 32 I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”

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  1. 5:30 Greek with tax collectors and sinners?

29 And kai Levi Leui made poieō a great megas banquet dochē for him autos in en · ho his autos house oikia, and kai there was eimi a great polys crowd ochlos of tax telōnēs collectors and kai others allos who hos were eimi reclining at table katakeimai with meta them autos. 30 And kai the ho Pharisees Pharisaios and kai their autos scribes grammateus were grumbling gongyzō · ho at pros · ho his autos disciples mathētēs, saying legō, “ Why dia tis do you eat esthiō and kai drink pinō with meta the ho tax telōnēs collectors and kai sinners hamartōlos?” 31 · kai In response apokrinomai · ho Jesus Iēsous said legō to pros them autos, “ Those ho who are healthy hygiainō have echō no ou need chreia of a doctor iatros, but alla those ho who are sick kakōs do echō; 32 I have not ou come erchomai to call kaleō righteous dikaios people , but alla sinners hamartōlos, to eis repentance metanoia.”

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