December 14, 2013, Oziọma

Matiu 17: 9-13

9:9 And when Jesus passed on from there, he saw, sitting at the tax office, a man named Matthew. Ọ si ya, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him.

9:10 O wee mee nke ahụ, as he was sitting down to eat in the house, le, many tax collectors and sinners arrived, and they sat down to eat with Jesus and his disciples.

9:11 And the Pharisees, seeing this, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

9:12 But Jesus, na-anụ ihe a, kwuru: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, but those who have maladies.

9:13 Ya mere, go out and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the just, but sinners.”