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The Calling of St. Matthew, by Vittore Carpaccio, 1502. Calling of St. Matthew by Alexandre Bida, 1875.. The Calling of Matthew, also known as the Calling of Levi, is an episode in the life of Jesus which appears in all three synoptic gospels, Matthew 9:9–13, Mark 2:13–17 and Luke 5:27–28, and relates the initial encounter between Jesus and Matthew, the tax collector who became a disciple.
Jesus eats with sinners and publicans by Alexandre Bida. This narrative is told in Matthew 9:10-17, Mark 2:15-22, and Luke 5:29-39. [1] The Pharisee rebuke Jesus for eating with sinners, to which Jesus responds, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." Jesus shows mercy as opposed to self-righteous judgment.
[1] [2] St. Matthew, the traditional author of the Gospel of Matthew, was said to have been a tax collector before becoming a follower of Jesus. Matthew mentions tax collectors three other times in the gospel, at 9:10 , 18:17 , and 21:31 - 32 , each time portraying them in an unfavourable light. [ 3 ]
It is said that tax collectors were particularly hated in Jesus' time because often greedy men undertook it from their love of money, and extorted unjust taxes, especially from the poor. [2] Pope Francis notes that despite sitting with these tax collectors and various sinners, "Jesus was scandalized by none of them".
The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (or the Pharisee and the Tax Collector) is a parable of Jesus that appears in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke 18 :9–14, [ 1 ] a self-righteous Pharisee , obsessed by his own virtue , is contrasted with a tax collector who humbly asks God for mercy .
Tax collectors amassed personal wealth by demanding tax payments in excess of what Rome levied and keeping the difference. [2] They worked for tax farmers . In the Gospel of Luke , Jesus sympathizes with the tax collector Zacchaeus , causing outrage from the crowds that Jesus would rather be the guest of a sinner than of a more respectable or ...
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Lapide states that these are the words, not of a mere question, but of an accusation. As if they said, "Your Master Christ acts contrary to the law of God and the traditions of the Fathers.