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Mattityahu (Mat) 9:9-13 “Why does your rabbi eat with tax-collectors and sinners?” CJB


Mattityahu (Mat) 9:9-13 As Yeshua passed on from there he spotted a tax-collector named Mattityahu sitting in his collection booth. He said to him, “Follow me!” and he got up and followed him.


While Yeshua was in the house eating, many tax-collectors and sinners came and joined him and his talmidim at the meal. 


When the P’rushim saw this, they said to his talmidim,


Question in the Bible


“Why does your rabbi eat with tax-collectors and sinners?” 


Answer in the Bible


But Yeshua heard the question and answered, “The ones who need a doctor aren’t the healthy but the sick. 


As for you, go and learn what this means: ‘I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifices.’ For I didn’t come to call the ‘righteous,’ but sinners!”