Luke 5:27-32

New International Version - UK

Jesus calls Levi and eats with sinners

²⁷ After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. ‘Follow me,’ Jesus said to him, ²⁸ and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

²⁹ Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’

³¹ Jesus answered them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill. ³² I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’