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Luke 5:27-28

LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 5:27 tax collector. In Palestine, tax collectors represented the Roman government. Their own people hated them because they often charged extra taxes and took the money for themselves (see Luke 19:8). In Matthew 9:9, Levi is called “Matthew.” Follow me. An invitation to a total commitment to Christ.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Catena Aurea Commentary

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Call of Levi_ (Matthew 9:9-13; Mark 2:13-17)....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἐθεάσατο, instead of εἶδεν. Hahn, appealing to John 1:14; John 4:35; John 11:45, assigns to it the meaning, to look with interest, to let the eye rest on with complacency. But it is doubtful whether i...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CONVERSION OF MATTHEW Matthew 20:9; Mark 2:13-14; & Luke 5:27-28. Mark: “And He went out again by the sea; and all the multitude came to Him, and He continued to teach them. And passing along He saw L...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 5:1. _And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, and saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone ou...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Miraculous draught of fishes. Healing of a leper and a paralytic. Call of Matthew. The scribes and Pharisees answered. Parables of the garment and bottles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Simon, Ja...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 5:3. _He sat down, and taught the people out of the ship._ Here he used those beautiful parables, in Matthew 13.; but Matthew's gospel being extant, St. Luke does not repeat the parables in this...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    AND SAW A TAX COLLECTOR NAMED LEVI. We know this man better as Matthew. See notes on Matthew 9:9-17. All the "inner circle" of disciples had been disciples of John the Baptist, who then left him to fo...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom_ A PUBLICAN Publican was the name given to an _employe _of low degree, whose duty it was to get in the tribute money. He was the age...

  • The Gospels Compared

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 5 VER. 6. _They inclosed a great multitude of fishes_ for Peter had said, "At Thy word I will let down the net." "Behold here the fruit and reward of obedience. Jesus did this 1. In order that...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 5:27. SAW.—Rather, “observed,” “beheld” (R.V.). LEVI.—The apostle and evangelist, St. Matthew (Matthew 9:9). Probably his original name was Levi, and the name Matthew or Matthias...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with their Founder were so well known, and had been so often r...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    John 1:43; John 12:26; John 21:19; Luke 18:22; Mark 2:13;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    He saw [ε θ ε α σ α τ ο]. Better, as Rev., beheld, since the verb denotes looking attentively. See on Matthew 11:7. A publican. See on chapter Luke 3:12. Receipt of custom. See on Matthew 9:9....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Matthew 9:9; Mark 2:14....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    The number of our Lord's apostles not being filled up, observe 1. What. free and gracious, what an unexpected and undeserved choice Christ makes. LEVI, that is MATTHEW, (for he had both names,). grind...

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