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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Why Jesus Chose a Tax Collector to Be His Disciple
Description: [Jesus] said to him, “Follow me.”Luke 5:27Why would Jesus choose a man like Matthew the tax collector to be a disciple? Wasn’t it obvious that a man like this, known for his collaboration and corruption, would be a liability?Luke tells us that the Pharisees “grumbled at his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’” (5:30).The disciples were probably asking the same question: “Jesus, why don’t you stick with fishermen? We may not have a fancy education like Levi, but we are known as hard...