"You received without paying; give without pay"

“These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them… ‘go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And proclaim as you go, saying “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.’” – Matt 10:5-8 This passage comes […]

"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

When Jesus said these words in Luke 5:31-32, the Pharisees were calling him out for eating with tax collectors and sinners, making himself unclean by eating with those who were religiously unclean. Set in the context of a collection of accounts of Jesus calling people to follow Him as disciples, this was Jesus’ final statement […]