Matthew 9:12

And as Jesus heard it, he said to them: They who are in health have no need of a physician, but they that are very sick.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

11And when the Pharisees saw it they said to his disciples, Why doth your Rabbi eat with publicans and sinners?

13Go and learn what that is: I require compassion, and not a sacrifice! For I did not come to call the righteous, but the sinful.

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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.

Luke 8:43And a certain woman, whose blood had flowed twelve years, and who had expended all her property among physicians, and could not be cured by any one,

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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