Mark 2:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

They that are whole

John 9:34

I came

General references

Mark 7:5

Bible References

They that are whole

And when He heard it, He said, "It is not well, but sick people that have to send for a doctor.

But Jesus answered them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor.

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

Then He said to them, "You are the men who exhibit your uprightness before the public, but God knows your hearts. For what stands high in the sight of men is detestable in the sight of God.

Then they retorted, "You were born in total depravity, and yet you are trying to teach us!" And so they turned him out of the synagogue.

I came

Omitted Text.

Just so, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinful person who repents!"

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."

but constantly and earnestly I urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn with repentance to God and to have faith in our Lord Jesus.

but I began to preach first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem, and all over Judea, and then to the heathen, to repent and turn to God, and to live lives consistent with such repentance.

For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice

It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

General references

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"