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26 And overwhelming astonishment and ecstasy seized them all, and they [a]recognized and praised and thanked God; and they were filled with and controlled by reverential fear and kept saying, We have seen wonderful and strange and incredible and unthinkable things today!

27 And after this, Jesus went out and looked [attentively] at a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, [b]Join Me as a disciple and side with My party and accompany Me.

28 And he forsook everything and got up and followed Him [becoming His disciple and siding with His party].

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:26 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  2. Luke 5:27 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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