Luke 5:29-32

Dining with Sinners

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^[a] 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.

32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit were reclining (at the table); at important meals the custom was to recline on a mat at a low table and lean on the left elbow.