The tax collectors and sinners all came to listen to Jesus.
When the wicked stop being wicked and do what is fair and right, they will save their lives.
If you love only the people who love you, you will get no reward. Even the tax collectors do that.
There are those who are last now who will be first in the future. And there are those who are first now who will be last in the future.”
(When the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they all agreed that God’s teaching was good, because they had been baptized by John.
The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God’s grace increased.
What I say is true, and you should fully accept it: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
