Jesus film 10 - Calling of Levi

Read Luke 5:27-31 (NIV)
²⁷After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, ²⁸and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. ²⁹Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. ³⁰But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. ³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

1. Levi in this story is the same man as Matthew, who wrote the Gospel of Matthew. It’s amazing that he followed Jesus after Jesus said only two words. Levi gave up his job. Are you willing to do that, when you know it’s right to do that?
   

2. It is dishonest to complain about somebody, without telling the person himself. We call that slander or gossip. This is what teachers of the law and Pharisees did. What do you think about Jesus’ answer? Did you know the reason of Jesus’ coming to this world? And what has that to do with a doctor?