Luke 5:31

And Jesus answering said to them, “They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

In Context

30and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

32I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to conversion.”

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Cross References

Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why has the health of the daughter of my people not gone up?

Mark 2:17And Jesus, having heard, says to them, “They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners.”

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:28-39

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering… Read the whole commentary →

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