Mark 2:13-17 - Levi Called To Follow Jesus

¹³ And he went out again by the lake, and all the multitude came to him, and he taught them. ¹⁴ And passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me; and he arose and followed him.

¹⁵ And he was reclining in his house, and many publicans and sinners also reclined with Jesus and his disciples, for many also followed him. ¹⁶ And the scribes and Pharisees seeing him eating with sinners and publicans, said to his disciples, Why does he eat and drink with sinners and publicans?

¹⁷ And Jesus hearing it, said to them, The well need not a physician, but the ill; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

²⁷ And after these things he went out and saw a publican by the name of Levi, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me. ²⁸ And leaving all he arose and followed him.

²⁹ And Levi made a great feast for him at his house; and there was a great multitude of publicans and of others who reclined with them. ³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans?

³¹ And Jesus answered and said to them, The well need not a physician, but the ill. ³² I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.