{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/csj/csj021.htm","path":"bib/csj/csj021.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/csj/csj021.htm","text":"The Complete Sayings of Jesus, by Arthur Hinds, [1927]\nA.D. 28, Age 31. Capernaum.\nLuke 5, 27-39; Matthew 9, 9-17; Mark 2, 13-22.\nJESUS went forth again by the sea side; and the multitudes resorted unto him, and he taught them.\n\u00b6As he passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew (Levi, a publican *), sitting at the receipt of custom: he said unto him,\nAnd he rose up, left all, and followed Jesus.\n\u00b6Levi made him a great feast \u2020 in his own house: and, behold, many publicans and others sat at meat with Jesus and his disciples.\nBut their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat with publicans and sinners? Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners?\nWhen Jesus heard that, he saith unto them,\n\u00b6The disciples of John used to fast often: and they come and say unto Jesus, Why do thy disciples fast not? Jesus said unto them,\n\u00b6And he spake also a parable unto them,\nAnother parable put he forth.\nNo man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new; for he saith, The old is better.\n26:* publican: a taxgatherer.\n26:\u2020 The three accounts of Levi's feast (particularly of the bridechamber parable) exhibit interesting variations of text: Luke 5, 29-39; Mark 2, 15-22; Matthew 9, 10-17.\n26:\u2021 Hosea 6. 6.","title":"The Complete Sayings of Jesus: XVIII. Matthew (Levi) Called","type":"page"}