Luke 5:30

Levi Called To Follow Jesus

²⁹ Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for Him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were guests with them. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to His disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹ Jesus replied to them, “The healthy don’t need a doctor, but the sick do.

Eating and Drinking

Law of Moses

Scribes and Pharisees

Tax Collector

Tax Collectors and Sinners

Teachers of the Law

Publicans And Sinners

Jesus

Luke

Moses

Non

Pharisees

Acts 23:9

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently: “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

Isaiah 65:5

They say, ‘Keep to yourself,
don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’
These practices are smoke in My nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.

Matthew 21:28-32

“But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go, work in the vineyard today.’

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

Luke 5:17

On one of those days while He was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and also from Jerusalem. And the Lord’s power to heal was in Him.

Luke 5:21

Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to think: “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Luke 7:29-30

(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

Luke 7:34

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Luke 7:39

When the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching Him—she’s a sinner!”

Luke 15:1-2

All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people —greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 19:7

All who saw it began to complain, “He’s gone to lodge with a sinful man!”