3 Caravaggio’s About St. Matthew
It was a whirlwind day – right off the plane, 5 minutes in the hotel, and then down to San Luigi dei Francesi aka St. Louis of the French Church. There in one of the side Chapel’s paid for a French Cardinal by the name of Matthew Cantrelli, you find three Caravaggio’s all about another Matthew – the tax collector Levi/Matthew who gave up his life of tax collecting to follow Jesus.
Matthew 9:9-13 describes the call of Matthew and the following events:
9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,”he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Here’s the link to the little video: https://youtu.be/ENJyp6KrZBo