Gospel texts 1:14-20 & 2:13-17
In the first passage, Jesus calls four fishermen. There are two sets of brothers: Simon (who became known as Peter) and Andrew, James and John. Jesus asked them to come with him to become ‘fishers of men’. At once they went with Jesus, leaving their work, families and old lives behind. Their response was immediate.
In the second passage, Jesus called Levi a tax collector. Tax collectors were outcasts because they worked for the Romans and Jesus caused controversy by eating at Levi’s house. The Pharisees questioned why Jesus ate with such people and Jesus explained that he came for sinners in the same way that a doctor came for sick people, not the healthy.
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