Luke 5:31

And Jesus answered and said to them: A physician is not sought after for the well, but for those very sick.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 Pharisees murmured, and said to his disciples: Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

32I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

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Cross References

Mark 2:17When Jesus heard it, he said to them: The healthy need not a physician, but those laboring under disease: I came, not to call the righteous, 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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