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Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
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Jesus Calls Levi
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax-collection station, and he said to him, “Follow me.”
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Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others reclining at the table with them.
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The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
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(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
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the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him.
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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt:
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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, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
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A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.
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They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man inciting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”