Towards the very beginning of His early ministry, Jesus like most teachers sought out students (disciples) to teach and entrust His mission to. Now there is a whole slew of sermons wrapped up in how and who and why Jesus chose the very eclectic and peculiar group of people that He did. But none were more controversial than perhaps Matthew. Though Jesus had uneducated men, mere teenagers, women, and radical zealots trailing behind Him, the calling of Matthew as a tax collector is especially scandalous.