filled with the Holy Spirit

Matthew 9

9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector's booth. 

"Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. 

So Matthew got up and followed him.



  10 Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other notorious sinners.

11 But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, 

"Why does your teacher eat with such scum?"


  12 When Jesus heard this, he said, 

"Healthy people don't need a doctor—sick people do."

13 Then he added, 

"Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: 

'I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.' 

For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, 

but those who know they are sinners."



I've talked about this passage before, so I won't belabor the point.


How many of us are so filled with the Holy Spirit, which in turn causes us to be so much like Jesus, that "notorious sinners" want to & choose to be around us?