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The narrative then focuses on Jesus’ encounter with Levi, a Jewish tax collector for the Roman government, and Jesus’ invitation to “Follow me.” Levi leaves everything to follow Jesus, later hosting a dinner that includes other tax collectors and disreputable sinners. Religious leaders question Jesus’ table fellowship with them.","114 Jesus Chooses Twelve Apostles  \nMatthew 9:9-13; 10:1-4 Mark 2:13-19;  \n3:8,13-19 Luke 5:27-32; 6:12-16; 9:1-2 John  \n11:16  \nEnglish Spiritual  \n114 Jesus Chooses Twelve Apostles  \nEnglish  \n© 2020 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc.  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOriginal illustrations by Jim Padgett, © Sweet Publishing licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.  \n[www.sweetpublishing.com](www.sweetpublishing.com)  \nWycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has skin darkened all of the Jim Padgett illustrations in our collection, and has modified some of them.  \nStory script © 2018 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nTemplate © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nMusic © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nA special thanks to the 50+ unnamed people who worked on the story scripts, templates, adapted illustrations and music.  \nJesus chose six men to follow him. He chose Simon, whom he named Peter. He also chose Andrew, James, John, Philip, and Nathanael. These were his first six disciples.  \nOne day, as Jesus was walking along with his disciples, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his booth. Levi was a Jewish man who collected taxes for the Roman government.  \nJesus spoke to Levi, saying,“Follow me, and be my disciple.” So Levi got up, left everything and followed Jesus. Levi was also known as Matthew.  \nLater, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to eat dinner in his home. He also invited many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners to sit and dine with Jesus and his disciples.  \nWhen the teachers of religious law, the Pharisees, saw Jesus eating with tax collectorsand other sinners, they did not approve.  \nThey said to Jesus’ disciples,“Why does your teacher eat with such people?”","cbCaik2atzg3OE2z","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik2atzg3OE2z","pdf",3085779,3,1,21,"English","en",105,"# Jesus Chooses Disciples\n## Calling Simon and the first followers\n## Calling Levi (Matthew)\n## Dinner with tax collectors and sinners\n## Pharisees question the fellowship","[{\"question\":\"Who did Jesus choose to follow him first?\",\"answer\":\"Jesus chose Simon (named Peter) and also Andrew, James, John, Philip, and Nathanael as his first disciples.\"},{\"question\":\"What happened when Jesus called Levi?\",\"answer\":\"Jesus told Levi, “Follow me, and be my disciple.” Levi left everything and followed Jesus, and he was also known as Matthew.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did the Pharisees object to Jesus eating with certain people?\",\"answer\":\"The Pharisees questioned why Jesus ate with tax collectors and other disreputable sinners, because they did not approve of that fellowship.\"}]",1784128179,53,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":25,"language":24,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":86,"head_meta":88,"extra_data":90,"updated_unix":28},"114-jesus-chooses-twelve-apostles","",{"@graph":36,"@context":85},[37,53,68],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,48,50],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":21},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":47},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":49,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/religion-spirituality/",{"item":51,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":52},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/114-jesus-chooses-twelve-apostles/80397/",4,{"url":51,"name":13,"@type":54,"author":55,"headline":13,"publisher":57,"fileFormat":60,"inLanguage":24,"description":14,"dateModified":61,"datePublished":62,"encodingFormat":60,"isAccessibleForFree":63,"interactionStatistic":64},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":56},"Person",{"url":41,"name":58,"@type":59},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-24","2026-07-15",true,{"@type":65,"interactionType":66,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":67},"ViewAction",{"@type":69,"mainEntity":70},"FAQPage",[71,77,81],{"name":72,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":74},"Who did Jesus choose to follow him first?","Question",{"text":75,"@type":76},"Jesus chose Simon (named Peter) and also Andrew, James, John, Philip, and Nathanael as his first disciples.","Answer",{"name":78,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":79},"What happened when Jesus called Levi?",{"text":80,"@type":76},"Jesus told Levi, “Follow me, and be my disciple.” Levi left everything and followed Jesus, and he was also known as Matthew.",{"name":82,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":83},"Why did the Pharisees object to Jesus eating with certain people?",{"text":84,"@type":76},"The Pharisees questioned why Jesus ate with tax collectors and other disreputable sinners, because they did not approve of that fellowship.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":51,"og:type":87,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":58,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":89,"canonical":51},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":25},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":92},[93,97,101,105,110,115,120,125,128,131,135],{"id":21,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":94,"show_sort_weight":95,"slug":96},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":47,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":98,"show_sort_weight":99,"slug":100},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":106,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":107,"show_sort_weight":108,"slug":109},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":111,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":112,"show_sort_weight":113,"slug":114},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":116,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":117,"show_sort_weight":118,"slug":119},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":121,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":122,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":124},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":127},20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":130},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":134},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":136,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":138},19,"General","general"]