Mark 2:13-17
Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
15 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. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
God LOVES sinners...And let us be grateful and thankful that He does LOVE sinners, or we would be doomed...God sent His Son to help us sinners...Jesus teaches us that He did not come to call on the righteous, but to call on sinners...
Priest Brennan Manning said that, “He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners...False gods—the gods of human manufacturing—despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do.”...