And Jesus answering said unto them,
They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Jesus Christ gives them here to understand, that they were of the number of those who languished under a severe indisposition, and that he was come to act as their Physician. (St. Chrysostom, hom. xxxi. in Matt.)
Or what medical man, anxious to heal a sick person, would prescribe in accordance with the patient's whims, and not according to the requisite medicine? But that the Lord came as the physician of the sick, He does Himself declare saying, "They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
, however, rather spoke of the Jews in a favourable light, when he said, "The whole needed not a physician, but they that are sick.".
Although disordered, since "they that are whole need not the physician, but they that are sick; "
