“The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and ...

Consider these five traits of a modern-day Pharisee. I am using the term in a broad sense to include anyone, religious or ...

At that time: Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, 'Follow me.' And leaving ...

Tax collectors were not popular in Jesus’ day and were commonly regarded as sinners. Tax collectors worked for the Romans, the occupying force in Palestine at the time. They collected taxes from ...