Matthew 9:12
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
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Psalms 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
Hosea 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
Mark 2:17On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Luke 8:43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:10-14
Matthew Called. 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a… Read the whole commentary →