We also meet Jesus eating with sinners and tax collector. In the Jews society, tax collectors were viewed as traitors and nobody had to associate with them. (Tolbert, Malcolm). But instead, Jesus ate with them. A good example is Zacchaeus who was a tax collector. We learn that Jesus had to associate with the sinners and tax collectors because he came for the lost and the outcasts. He declared His mission by saying, it is “not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Matthew 5:31-32). When we come across Jesus’ interaction with the poor, we see his treatment to them as one full of compassion. In one instance, we see that He recommended people to use their wealth to gain
