“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance — the repentance addition in Luke (absent from Mark) clarifies the purpose of the table fellowship: Jesus is not celebrating sin but calling sinners to repentance. The dinner at Levi's house is a mission event — the coming of the physician to the sick, the coming of the reconciler to the estranged.
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