He extended the call to a heart prepared by grace. No conversation is reported in these verses. There seems to be no discussion. Jesus, out of the blue, says to a stranger, Follow me. And Levi did.
Some people can t accept that.
Something must have happened in between, some psychological or historical event. Unfortunately our text is ruthlessly silent on this point, and in fact it regards the immediate sequence of call and response as a matter of crucial importance. It displays not the slightest interest in the psychological reasons for a man s religious decisions. For the simple reason that the cause behind the immediate following . . . is Jesus Christ himself. It is Jesus who calls, and because it is Jesus, Levi follows at once .