Matthew 9:9-13
The Calling of Matthew
9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Jesus was always teaching and healing the ones that society had outcast...He gave the outcast ones strength...He gave those most in need strength...And when He was helping others, I surely bet those around Him when seeing His teachings and healings were helped as well...
Jesus never shied away from adversity, but seemed to embrace it...Just as He embraced the outcast...He never seemed to be particular strong in His teachings and adversities, but He is the Strongest Man ever to walk the earth...He was familiar with all man's flaws, weaknesses, and sins...So He is familiar with all the dark side of mankind...Yet, that is why He came and dwelt the earth...He came for sinners, and not for those who thought they were righteous...