25. Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
26. Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
27. After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”
28. He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
29. Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
30. Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”