Matthew 9:12
Good News Translation
Jesus heard them and answered, "People who are well do not need a doctor, but only those who are sick.

New Revised Standard Version
But when he heard this, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus heard them and answered, "Healthy people don't need a doctor, but sick people do.

New American Bible
He heard this and said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill.

They that be whole.

Psalm 6:2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 41:4 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

Psalm 147:3 Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

Jeremiah 30:17 For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

Hosea 14:4 I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

Mark 2:17 Jesus hearing this, saith to them: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.

Luke 5:31 And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick.

Luke 8:43 And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians and could not be healed by any.

Luke 9:11 Which when the people knew, they followed him: and he received them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and healed them who had need of healing.

Luke 18:11-13 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. . . .

Romans 7:9-24 And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived, . . .

Revelation 3:17,18 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. . . .

Context
The Calling of Matthew
11And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners? 12But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill. 13Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

Mark 2:17
Jesus hearing this, saith to them: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.

Luke 5:31
And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick.

Colossians 4:14
Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.

Matthew 9:11
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