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Mk 2:17b ... "Not did I come to call (the) righteous, but rather sinners."

The fifth and sixth phrases have these 6 dialog words said by Jesus ... ouk elthon kalesai dikaious, alla hamartolous ("not did I come to call the righteous, but rather sinners").

The 4 words of phrase 5 are top down the center. The 4 words of phrase 5 are tangent to the 4 disciples. The 2 words of phrase 6 are diagonally up the sides tangent to the tax collectors. The scribes and pharisees considered any Jew who collected taxes for the Romans or bought the license to tax as a sinner possessed by and Unclean Spirit. Jesus did not eat physical food with them in Levi's house, instead he fed them "bread" (belief in Jesus), on the shore of the sea or inside the house.

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