27 After these things Jesus went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

28 He left everything, and rose up and followed him. 29 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. 30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Luke 5:27-32 - World English Bible

After the healing of a paralytic in Luke's gospel, Jesus called a tax collector named Levi (Matthew).. These two images helped to define the audience of the Christ and set up a controversy with his enemies: the scribes and the Pharisees. In response to the invitation to follow Jesus, Levi held a banquet in his honor with the sinner's friends; his enemies questioned that wisdom. The Lord replied with a medical proverb: the sick need a doctor, not the healthy. Of course, those who refuse to see their own illness will also reject the physician; that corollary was actually the point. Jesus did not come to call the self-righteous, but the sinner to repentance. The immoral and shunned realized their need to change, for they were honest with themselves. But, the self-righteous did not need to repent, because they did not see the sin in themselves. Ironically, the scribes and Pharisees had the greater need, due to their blindness and pride.

Has pride blinded you to your need for the Lord?