Later on Jesus was having a meal

in Levi’s house.

A large number of tax collectors

and other outcasts was following Jesus,

and many of them joined him

and his disciples at the table.

Some teachers of the Law,

who were Pharisees,

saw that Jesus was eating

with these outcasts and tax collectors,

so they asked his disciples,

"Why does he eat with such people?"

Jesus heard them and answered,

"People who are well do not need a doctor,

but only those who are sick.

I have not come

to call respectable people, but outcasts."

Mark 2:15-17