Thematic Bible: Physicians employed for
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Is there no balm in
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the [spiritual] health of the daughter of my people been restored?
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa developed a disease in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his illness he did not seek the Lord, but [relied only on] the physicians.
But when Jesus heard this, He said, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but [only] those who are sick.
So He said to them, “You will no doubt quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal Yourself! Whatever [miracles] that we heard were done [by You] in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown as well.’”
and had endured much [suffering] at the hands of many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but instead had become worse.