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Luke 5:27-32

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27After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him,

28and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

29Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.

30But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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1)       Who was Levi of the twelve apostles?

o   Levi was Matthew of the twelve apostles.

 

2)       According to verses 27 and 28 what did Levi do when Jesus told Levi who was sitting at the tax collector’s booth to follow him?

o   Levi

§  Got up.

§  Left everything.

§  And followed Jesus.

 

3)       According to verse 29 who were there while Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house?

o   A large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with Jesus.

 

4)       In accordance with verse 29 how had Levi learned from Jesus in taking on the mission of calling sinners to repentance when he started following Jesus?

o   Levi invited

§  Many tax collectors.

§  And others.

o   To dinner with Jesus.

o   So that

o   They could get to know Jesus.

 

5)       According to verse 30 what did the Pharisees and the teachers of the law ask the disciples when they saw them eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?

o   They asked the disciples why they did so.

 

6)       Was Jesus referring to the physical condition or the spiritual condition when he talked about the healthy and the sick in verse 31?

o   Jesus was referring to the condition of being

§  Spiritually healthy.

§  And spiritually sick.

 

7)       According to what Jesus said in verse 32 whom had he come to call to repentance?

o   Jesus had not come to call

§  The righteous.

§  But sinners.

o   To repentance.

 

8)       Is a sinner righteous or unrighteous since Jesus had not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance?

o   A sinner is unrighteous.

 

9)       According to Jesus, is a righteous person spiritually healthy or spiritually sick?

o   A righteous person is spiritually healthy.

 

10)   According to Jesus, is a sinner spiritually healthy or spiritually sick?

o   A sinner is spiritually sick.

 

11)   Did Jesus consider the Pharisees and the teachers of the law spiritually healthy or spiritually sick, given that they saw only the sins of tax collectors but not their own?

o   Jesus considered

§  The Pharisees.

§  And the teachers of the law.

o   Spiritually sick.

 

12)   Did Jesus consider the Pharisees and the teachers of the law to be sinners then?

o   Yes.

 

13)   Whereupon whom did Jesus come to call in the current situation, given that he did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance?

o   Jesus came to call

§  Not only tax collectors.

§  But also

Ø  The Pharisees. 

Ø  And the teachers of the law.

 

14)   What is the difference between the Pharisees and the teachers of the law on the one hand and the tax collectors on the other in terms of seeing themselves as sinners?

o   Tax collectors saw themselves as sinners.

o   The Pharisees and the teachers of the law did not.

 

15)   How did tax collectors who saw themselves as sinners respond to Jesus’ call?

o   They followed Jesus.

 

16)   How did the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who did not see themselves as sinners respond to Jesus’ call?

o   They refused to follow Jesus.

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Luke 5:27-32

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