After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at

his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and

followed him. Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large

crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and

the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why

do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus answered them, “It is

not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the

righteous, but sinners to repentance.” - Luke 5: 27 - 32