September 21, 2013, Gospel

^{Matthew 9:9-13}

^{9 As Jesus was walking on from there he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him.}

^{10 Now while he was at table in the house it happened that a number of tax collectors and sinners came to sit at the table with Jesus and his disciples.}

^{11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your master eat with tax collectors and sinners?’}

^{12 When he heard this he replied, ‘It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.}

^{13 Go and learn the meaning of the words: Mercy is what pleases me, not sacrifice. And indeed I came to call not the upright, but sinners.’}