Hope for the Rejected

²⁷After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. ²⁸And he got up and followed him, leaving everything behind.

²⁹Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them. ³⁰But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹Jesus answered them, “Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. ³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”