'I have come to call not the upright but sinners to repentance.' Luke 5:27-32

Today's Readings

'I have come to call not the upright but sinners to repentance.'  

Luke 5:27-32

 

²⁷ When he went out after this, he noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting at the tax office, and said to him, 'Follow me.'

²⁸ And leaving everything Levi got up and followed him.

²⁹ In his honour Levi held a great reception in his house, and with them at table was a large gathering of tax collectors and others.

³⁰ The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples and said, 'Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?'

³¹ Jesus said to them in reply, 'It is not those that are well who need the doctor, but the sick.

³² I have come to call not the upright but sinners to repentance.'