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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.
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Verse 29. And Levi made him a great feast, to testify his gratitude to Jesus for the favour he had done him. It appears that both Saint Mark and Saint Luke affect, through consideration for Saint Matthew, to designate him here by his less known name of Levi; whereas he designates himself, through humility, in this same circumstance, by his more known appellation of Matthew. See Matthew 9:9. V.
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