In this chapter the early ministry of Jesus is portrayed. The first four apostles—Simon Peter, Andrew, James, and John — have joined Jesus and travel with him through Galilee. News of Jesus’ teachings and miraculous powers has begun to spread, and has come to the attention of the Pharisees. Jesus befriends the hated tax collector Matthew, who also becomes a disciple, and proclaims that he has come “not for the sake of the righteous but to save the sinners.”