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Tax Collector to Disciple: Matthew 9:9-13
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As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth.
The tax booth. A symbol of Roman occupation and Jewish betrayal. Tax collectors bought the right to collect taxes and extorted whatever extra they could. They were collaborators, traitors, untouchables.
Matthew sat there. Working. Collecting. Profiting from his own people's oppression.
"Follow me," Jesus told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
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