GOP Gospel: Tax Collectors and Sinners
Mar. 19th, 2021 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinDay 26 of my Lent project. For background, please read this.
A reading from the Gospel according to the GOP:
Matthew 9:10-13
And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?" But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."
A reading from the Gospel according to the GOP:
Word reached the Pharisees that Jesus was sitting and eating not only with his disciples but with many tax-collectors and sinners. When the Pharisees heard this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?" But Jesus heard them and said, "These are slanders from a jealous crowd, who cannot bear my righteousness and so seek to scandalize me. I know well what the Father says is clean and unclean, and would not lower myself to the company of such undesirables, lest I be influenced by them, or be seen to condone them. The Father has sent me to those he loves, to reinforce their righteousness and encourage them in a world set against them, and not to the sinners who persecute them."
Matthew 9:10-13
And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?" But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."
