As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Cool story of Our Lord having chow with a bunch of IRS agents. But these were of the nice kind.
Jesus saw beneath the surface of Matthew and discerned that this man so skilled at balancing accounts and checking debits and credits would be excellent at gathering verses from the Psalms and Prophets and checking them “fulfilled” as they came to pass in His Holy Passion, one by one.