¹ Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.

¹⁰ And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.

¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?

¹² But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

¹³ But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

²⁸ But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

²⁹ And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went.

³⁰ And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.

³¹ Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

²⁹ And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.

³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?

³¹ And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

³² I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

³⁰ And the last will be first, and the first will be last.

²⁰ And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

²⁷ Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

²⁹ (And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.