Luke 5:31

And in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, It is not the bariim who have need of a rofeh, but the cholim (sick persons);

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Perushim and their Sofrim were murmuring against Rebbe Melech HaMoshiachʼs talmidim, saying, Why with the mochesim and chote'im are you eating and drinking?

32I have not come to call the tzaddikim but chote'im (sinners) to teshuva (repentance).

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Cross References

Jeremiah 8:22Is there no tzori (medicinal balsam or balm) in Gil'ad; 1 is there no rofeh (physician) there? 1 Why then is the health 1 of the Bat Ami not recovered? 1

Mark 2:17And having heard this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Itʼs not the strong ones that have need of a rofeh (physician) but rather the cholim (sick persons). I did not come to call [the] tzaddikim (righteous ones) but the chote'im (sinners) [to teshuva].

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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