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Call of Levi (Matthew) - After that He went out and looked at a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” And he left everything behind, and got up and began ...
Discusses the role of publicans or tax collectors in Roman Palestine, and the radical nature of Jesus calling Levi to be a disciple.
Jesus talks to Tax Collector Levi ‘Follow me,’ Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
The story in this passage proceeds simply. Jesus observes the tax collector Levi at work and calls him to follow (9:23, 59; 18:22). Levi's response is totalâ he got up, left everything and followed him.
Here he saw a publican, Matthew or Levi, (for it was a common thing among the Jews for a person to have two names,) sitting, whom he ordered to follow him, and who immediately obeyed, being designed of God for a more honourable employment than that of collecting the taxes.
Jesus calls Levi (Matthew), a despised tax collector, to follow Him. Levi does. Later Jesus is reclining at a table in Levi’s home with other tax collectors and sinners when the Pharisees ask Jesus’s disciples why their master associates with vile people.
26 lut 2022 · As a tax collector, Levi was considered a sinner and people avoided him. We can assume that he had been following Jesus, not purposely to listen but to tax His followers.
