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These Jewish tax collectors were disdained by the Jews. They were considered traitors because they worked for the despised Roman rulers. Jesus casually says to Levi the tax collector,”follow me” and “Levi got up and followed him.” Just like that.
1 paź 2024 · Matthew the apostle had been a dishonest tax collector driven by greed until Jesus Christ chose him as a disciple. Also called Levi, Matthew was not a stand-out character in the Bible; he is only mentioned by name in the lists of apostles and in the account of his calling.
20 wrz 2022 · As a Jewish tax collector, Levi would have been considered a traitor and unworthy to be chosen to follow Jesus by many Jews. Of course, once Levi accepts the call to follow Jesus, he is known as only Matthew, meaning “Yahweh’s gift.” For this reason, most believe Matthew was Levi’s Christian name.
So, we can identify Levi from two facts, that his father was called Alphaeus and that he was a tax collector (publican). As in Mark 2:14, Luke 5:27 also says Levi rose and followed Jesus, but he is never again mentioned in either gospel.
Matthew was one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus. He was also known by the name Levi. What made him unique from the other Apostles was his economic status and his career as a tax collector for the Romans. As a tax collector he was very unlikely to get any attention from a Jewish Rabbi.
9 lip 2020 · The gospels tell us that Matthew the Apostle (also known as Levi, the son of Alphaeus) was a tax collector. In Matthew 9:9 (NIV), we read the following: "[Jesus] saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. 'Follow me,' he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him."
1 kwi 2019 · As we just learned in the passages above (Matthew 9:9, Mark 2:14, Luke 5:27–28), Matthew was a tax collector, or a publican—someone who was contracted by the Roman government to collect taxes. As a Jew, stepping into this profession was essentially an act of betrayal to his people.
