#tax collectors

[artandthebible]

The Calling of Saint Matthew

Artist: Caravaggio (Italian, 1571(2)-1610)

Date: 1599-1600

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: San Luigi dei Francesi, a Catholic Church in Rome, Italy

The Calling of Matthew | Matthew 9:9

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.

The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).

Caravaggio represented the event as a nearly silent, dramatic narrative. The sequence of actions before and after this moment can be easily and convincingly re-created. The tax-gatherer Levi (Saint Matthew's name before he became the apostle) was seated at a table with his four assistants, counting the day's proceeds, the group lighted from a source at the upper right of the painting. Christ, His eyes veiled, with His halo the only hint of divinity, enters with Saint Peter. A gesture of His right hand, all the more powerful and compelling because of its languor, summons Levi. Surprised by the intrusion and perhaps dazzled by the sudden light from the just-opened door, Levi draws back and gestures toward himself with his left hand as if to say, "Who, me?", his right hand remaining on the coin he had been counting before Christ's entrance.

[wrongydkjquotes]

Cookie: I think that if someone tried to rob you in the street, you'd pick his pocket, sell him a better knife and probably offer him a job as a tax collector.

Nate: I choose to take that as a compliment.

( Source: The Folding Knife)

[preacherpollard]

"New And Improved"

Neal Pollard His ministry is exploding, His popularity expanding, and His teaching exposing, but His opponents are exasperating. Luke relates the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. His antagonists had already reasoned in their hearts that Jesus was a blasphemer (5:20), and now they will get more vocal in their criticism. They represented what was, the status quo. As it was, the Pharisees and…

[tom4jc]

Luke 15:1 Meet With Them To Draw Them

Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. Luke 15:1 In many social groups people will often get together only with those of the same social status. Often it is because they have various life factors in common and can understand each other. Looking up is always acceptable, but looking down to someone else is often frowned upon. The world wants to keep people in…

[ultrachoppedpenguinbouquet]

Matthew

[newsbites]

PSAC workers are on strike. Pay levels in the face of rising living costs are a key issue, and also the right to work remotely.

[corsairspade]

there are many reasons I like the "Erestor son of Caranthir" headcanon but secretly the main one is that I'm imagining all of the remaining noldo auditors sighing of relief when Caranthir dies and they don't have to try play 4d chess with multiverse time travel trying to catch this guy doing tax evasion. life is good for exilic auditors now.

and then suddenly Elrond and Elros turn up again! even better! oh who's this, Elrond? your good friend Erestor? he's helping you with your taxes? oh how swe- what is this Elrond. What is this. your paperwork for your taxes you say. not a declaration of war? because it looks like a declaration of war on the exilic auditors, Elrond.

and then all the auditors are so busy doing "extreme tax auditing™" for the first time since the second Kinslaying that they don't tell anyone they're pretty sure there's another scion of the house of Fëanor running around.

[cookiehau]

soo i drew ALL the npcs.... :D

[firestorm09890]

I bet Project Moon had such a laugh over this one

[offlineblues]

hello datastorm nation

[raliciel]

IDK if this counts as Yumejoshi. But I have Doralice, the wife of Mandricardo herself, as a Fanservant. Except she's fused with the fairy who guarded Hektor's armor and is now a foreigner.

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Doralice (Foreigner) The princess of Granada, the bride of Rodomonte, and later the lover of Mandricardo. She is a character originating from "Orlando Furioso". As Mandricardo traveled across Paris to seek revenge for his deceased father, he encountered a caravan from Rotomonte's troop. Further inspection and a slaughter passed, that's how Mandricardo fell in love with Doralice, who was in the caravan. She's summoned from the Hero Thorne with her Saint Graph mixed and appears to be with an unnamed fairy who tried to burn Mandricardo's attire in their first meeting. Perhaps it's the similar connection they shared that completed their changeling process.

[r0ryy]

couple of Casses

[autisticayin]

NO MATTER HOW GREAT YOU MAY BE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE PALM OF MY HAND.

[aworldofseasandstars]

Matthew the Apostle + Text Posts

[ultrachoppedpenguinbouquet]

How many times did Jesus visit Jericho?

I suppose you could say at least twice but more likely 3 times or maybe more because these are the only times mentioned in scripture. The question you asked is a legitimate question. Matthew 20:29-34 tells us Jesus healed 2 blind men while Mark 10:46-52 and Luke 18:35-43 tell us it was 1. Only Mark chose to identify one of the beggars as Bartimaeus, perhaps because Bartimaeus was known to Mark’s…

[flamebunnyy]

some wol doodles :> (@catjacket-scribbles)

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