Who do you think Jesus chose to spend time with during his ministry on earth? Did he ally himself with the spiritual leaders, the religious teachers and influencers of his day? We get to see today who he approached and where he found willing followers.
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The featured scripture in this episode is Matt 9:9-13. Jesus has been busy, a lot of coming and going around Lake Galilee. We get to meet someone special in today's reading. This man is a tax collector and the religious leaders counted people like him as "sinners", people to be avoided. Jesus makes friends with him and catches criticism from the Pharisees for it. Jesus emphasizes an important point: he came to reach sinners and outsiders, to be a doctor to the sick, not to gain the respect of religious leaders. If he hadn't done that, we wouldn't have Matthew's gospel, because that tax collector was Matthew!
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