Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 5:29

"And Levi made him a great feast in his house: and there was a great multitude of publicans and of others that were sitting at meat with them." — Luke 5:29 (ASV)

A great feast.—The fact stated agrees with St. Mark, but the precise phrase is peculiar to St. Luke. The noun means literally a reception, and agrees, curiously enough, with the most modern use of that word.

Of publicans and of others.—It is, perhaps, characteristic of St. Luke as a Gentile that he will not use the word “sinners” as St. Matthew and St. Mark appear to have used it, as popularly including heathen as such, and substitutes the vaguer word “others.”