Matthew 9:9-13 - Matthew Called To Follow Jesus
9 Afterward, as Jesus was passing along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me!" And he got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was at home at table, a number of tax-collectors and irreligious people came in and joined Jesus and his disciples at table. 11 And the Pharisees observed it, and they said to his disciples, "Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"
12 But he heard it, and said, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor! 13 You must go and learn what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for.' I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."