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Matthew the Tax Collector
As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.
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Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
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And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
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Matthew the Tax Collector
Then He went out again by the sea; and all the multitude came to Him, and He taught them.
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Matthew the Tax Collector
After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.”
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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
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Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.