[Robert Sanders]

Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

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13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.

15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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10Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.
11When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?"
12But when Jesus heard this, He said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.…

Do what Jesus did, not what Paul/Saul and your pastors teach you to do. You do not need a cut and paste (hopefully) that teaches you what Jesus though of people who say “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” and pass judgement on it.

Do you confess that Jesus art the Christ the Son of the Living God?

Yes or no?