“And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.”
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them — the great banquet is Levi's immediate response to his call: he hosts Jesus, and the banquet is populated with Levi's social network — tax collectors and others (sinners, implied). The kingdom feast begins with the kingdom's unexpected guests — the very people whose exclusion from respectable tables Jesus is about to defend.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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