He was Levi but Jesus him Matthew
…He went out and noticed a tax collector named (onoma) Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” – Luke 5:27 (NASB95)
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called (lego) Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him. – Matthew 9:9 (NASB95)
For Matthew, meeting Jesus means
Matthew will only about himself what
Matthew: Gift of God (EBD)
Meeting Jesus leads to a (v.29)
Levi (Matthew) gave a big (megas) reception for Him (v.29) (NASB)
Levi walked away from but now as Matthew he Jesus and
brings
Disciples of John and Disciples of Jesus (vv.30-39)
John the Baptist’s Disciples:
John’s (The Baptist) disciples and the Pharisees were fasting: and they came and said to Him, “why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” – Mark 2:18 (NASB)
Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John (the Baptist)…15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth. 16 Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous – to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” – Luke 1:13-17 (NIV)
(John the Baptist) looked at Jesus…and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” 37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. – John 1:36-37 (NASB95)
And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”…(John the Baptist) He must increase, but I must decrease. – John 3:26-30 (NASB95)
In Luke 5, John is in prison, John’s ministry is
He (Herod) shut up John (the Baptist) in prison. – Luke 3:20 (KJV)
John’s Disciples: Should be following
John’s Disciples with the (v.30)
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting… – Mark 2:18 (NASB)
Not Following Jesus we find John’s Disciples: Trying to keep a going
John’s Disciples won’t of what God in the so they will miss what God is doing
(earlier) Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the country round about the Jordan went out to him (John); And they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins. – Matthew 3:5-6
John’s Disciples are critical of God is reaching (v.30)
Critical of God is reaching people (v.30)
Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” (v.30) (NIV)
Equated with (vv.30&33)
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting… – Mark 2:18 (NASB)
Judged Jesus’ Disciples by a that Jesus didn’t
They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking (pino).” – Luke 5:33 (NIV)
Drinking: pino – to imbibe (Strong’s)
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.” – Luke 7:34-35 (ESV)
It’s not recorded that John’s Disciples
Jesus’ Disciples:
Were taught that people (vv.31-32)
(v.33) “…John’s disciples often fast and pray…but yours go on eating and drinking.” – Luke 5:33 (NIV)
Jesus’ Point: Not trying to the (v.36)