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Mark`s Biography of Jesus - The Calling of Levi
WHEN JESUS CALLS YOU YOU CAN`T PUT IT OF TILL TOMORROW BECAUSE YOU DON`T KNOW WHAT A DAY WILL BRING.SO LISTEN FOR HIS SMALL STILL VOICE WHEN HE CALLS AND BE READY TO DO HIS WILL.



By: roke castro
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How did Jesus behave in sharp contrast to how religious leaders acted?
He showed that he came for sinners both in word and in action.The scribes and Pharisees think that they are the only righteous people and they have their own classification of who is righteous and who isnot.They believed that God is only for the righteous.But Jesus wanted to show everyone that the son of God came for all who believe, he came for the sinners;since all are sinners.



By: Hilina Terefe
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How did Jesus behave in sharp contrast to how religious leaders acted?
Jesu interracted freely with those who were considered to be sinners. like pharisees.



By: Sammy Mvoo
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How did Jesus behave in sharp contrast to how religious leaders acted?
He sat and eat with the tax collectors and sinners. That makes the religious leader questioned among them.



By: Lisa Balan
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How did Jesus behave in sharp contrast to how religious leaders acted?
He was not judgemental based on status or appearance. As He stated, He came to call the sinners, not the righteous. The religious leaders of the time we so puffed up with their knowledge, but in a hypocritical way. They could recite passages from the bible, and could answer many questions pertaining to the bible...but they did not live the WORD. In my own opinion, they used the bible as a weapon to use against those they did not DEEM worthy. They sat in judgement and yet failed to look at their own misgivings. Judge not, least ye be judged. Only Jesus can judge us, for only He knows our hearts. Thanks be to God.



By: Susan Fry
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How did Jesus behave in sharp contrast to how religious leaders acted?
The religious leaders were too good to be in the company of sinners, but Jesus sat with them and ate.



By: ninecritters
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Calling of sinners
John, a great friend of Jesus, wrote when he was an old, old man:
  • How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are! ''I John 3:1a''

    That is what we are! We didn't do anything for that one. And if any one of you here right now thinks that you're not qualified, that there's too much junk, too much brokenness, too much darkness in your life, hear Jesus' words. This is what Jesus said:

  • I have not come to call ''that word again'' the righteous, but sinners. ''Mark 2:17''



    By: John Ortberg
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    How did Jesus behave in sharp contrast to how religious leaders acted?
    J?sus drank and ate with sinners. He came to help them ''us''. He doesn`t walk away from them to follow any law. His law is Love. When he sees us suffering he doesn`t walk around us. He takes us to his place and cares for us. Like a Doctor to heal the sick and the lonely.



    By: Barney Mud
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    The Calling of Levi
    He was sent to the sinners not the righteous.



    By: Glory Ekpa
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    The Calling of Levi

    He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.
    It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
    When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

    Mark 2:13-17
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