Matthew 9:12

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

In Context

11When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

13But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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Cross References

Psalms 6:2Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint. LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalms 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says the LORD, “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”

Hosea 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

Mark 2:17When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Luke 8:43A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any,

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 →

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