Jesus Saw a Man - Not a Traitor

***CHAPTER 13:  JESUS CALLS MATTHEW TO BE A DISCIPLEAFTER THE miraculous cure of the paralytic, Jesus left the house and, as he passed along, saw Matthew, known as Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting in the customhouse-where he performed his duties as tax collector.  Jesus said to him:             “Follow me.”            Matthew arose and followed him.            Later Jesus sat down to a meal in Matthew’s house.  With him were his disciples and many tax collectors and sinners.            Pharisees and scribes who saw them eating together were surprised and said to the disciples:            “Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?”            Jesus, hearing them, said:            “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.  I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”