An honest tax collector and a forner prostitute with positive volition towards God's grace and revelation.. And the LJC didn't "hang out" with anybody unless you think a teacher "hangs out" with his students in class.
I'm sorry but it is a bit irksome when people diminish the nobility of the Lord and make himout to be the hippie-dippie dude from Galilee.
An honest tax collector? There's an oxymoron.