While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
(막 2:13-17)

묵상하면서 왜 "sinners"라는 표현을 썼을까라는 생각을 했습니다. 따옴표로 둘렀다는 이야기지요. 그러면서 이해하게 된건, 그 "sinners"는 다른 사람들이 그들을 부를 때 그렇게 불렀다는것입니다.

그런데 예수님이 바리새인에게 대답하실 때는 따옴표를 빼놓고 대답하십니다.
예수님은 "sinners"라는 무리들을 손가락질하는 사람과 함께 계시지 않고, 그 sinners들과 함께 계셨던 것이지요.

어쩌면 예수님이 말씀하신 문장을, "I have not come to call 'the righteous', but 'the sinners'"라고 보아도 의미있는 해석이 될 것 같네요.