Jesus wants to teach people the importance ... times a day and people would go to the temple for private prayer. The tax collector, on the other hand, put his head down and kept hitting himself ...

Matthew was a tax collector called to ministry by Jesus: Matt 9:9, “9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” ...

Jesus was passing through Jericho. There was a chief tax collector there named Zacchaeus, who was rich. Zacchaeus was a little man, and wanted to see Jesus, so he climbed a sycamore tree.

This gospel was written by a Jew, Matthew the tax-collector, for a Jewish Christian audience. The narrative closely follows the life of Jesus from his birth, through his ministry and unto his ...