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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Jesus Came to Call Sinners
Description: “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” LUKE 5:32
This is our third statement from Jesus about why He came into the world.
Luke records the story of Levi who became one of the twelve disciples: Jesus “went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth” (Luke 5:27). The fact that Levi was a tax collector tells us two things: First, Levi was brilliant—you had to be if you were a tax collector. He most likely spoke three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. And he was a skilled ac...