Matthew 9:7-9

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⁷ And the man jumped up and left!

⁸ A chill of fear swept through the crowd as they saw this happen right before their eyes. How they praised God for giving such authority to a man!

⁹ As Jesus was going on down the road, he saw a tax collector, Matthew,^[a] sitting at a tax collection booth. “Come and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him, and Matthew jumped up and went along with him.