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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Reason #3: Jesus Came into the World to Call Sinners
Description: “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”Luke 5:32Luke records the story of Levi, who became one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. His is a remarkable story. We are told that Jesus “went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth” (5:27).The fact that Levi was a tax collector tells us two things about him. The first is that he was brilliant. He was likely an educated man who spoke three languages—Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. He would have been a skilled ac...