Matthew (Levi)

Levi the Tax Collector · The Writer

In Mark’s Gospel

His calling at the tax booth
Mark 2:14
Hosted a dinner where Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners — prompting the Pharisees' complaint and Jesus's answer: "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Mark 2:15-17
Named among the twelve
Mark 3:18

Decisive — "he rose and followed him" (Mark 2:14); Luke adds "he left everything" (Luke 5:28)
Hospitable — immediately opened his home to Jesus and his outcast friends (Mark 2:15)
Transformed outsider — from collaborator with Rome to apostle; his Gospel bridges Jew and Gentile

“Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses” — Hebrews 12:1

A keepsake of Matthew (Levi)’s story — the portrait on the front, the key moments on the back.

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Every claim above is from Scripture unless labeled “Tradition.” Depictions are checked against the WEB text on this site.