Mark 2:13-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Jesus Calls Levi

¹³ Jesus^[a] went out again beside the lake; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them. ¹⁴ As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him.

¹⁵ And as he sat at dinner^[b] in Levi’s^[c] house, many tax-collectors and sinners were also sitting^[d] with Jesus and his disciples—for there were many who followed him. ¹⁶ When the scribes of^[e] the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does he eat^[f] with tax-collectors and sinners?’ ¹⁷ When Jesus heard this, he said to them, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.’