Matthew 9:9-13
Jesus Came for Sinners
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.”
Romans 3:22-26
We Fall Short of the LORD
22 There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Jesus came to earth to find and call on sinners...And He went from village to village talking, eating, and conversing with sinners...
And as we think about Jesus, He has Complete Knowledge of sins and forgiveness...Jesus made it clear that He can to earth to help and forgive sinners...When one reflects on the subject of sins and forgiveness, Jesus' authority and knowledge of sins and forgiveness is so great that no other man in the history of mankind, knew and knows about forgiveness and sins as He does...His knowledge on the subject is unsurpassed...A Messiah who is a expert on sins and forgiveness was not what man had expected in a Messiah, but was and is what the world needed and needs...We all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God...So a Messiah has appeared who brings exactly what the world needs...Our Messiah would die on the Cross for our sins, and He died forgiving us of our sins...