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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Jesus, Friend of Sinners
Description: He [Jesus] saw Levi... sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.”Mark 2:14Remember, Israel was an occupied country at this time. The Roman army had marched in and made Israel part of the empire, and that meant paying taxes to Rome.
The problem was that the Romans needed people to gather taxes, but who in their right mind would take money from their own people for a foreign occupying power? So, Rome offered an incentive. They set the amount collectors had to gather from each town, and then...