马太福音 9:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶穌聽見了，就說：“健康的人不需要醫生，有病的人才需要，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 听 见 ， 就 说 ： 康 健 的 人 用 不 着 医 生 ， 有 病 的 人 才 用 得 着 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ When Jesus was leaving, he saw a man named Matthew sitting in the tax collector's booth. Jesus said to him, "Follow me," and he stood up and followed Jesus. ¹⁰ As Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with Jesus and his followers. ¹¹ When the Pharisees saw this, they asked Jesus' followers, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" ¹² When Jesus heard them, he said, "It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick. ¹³ Go and learn what this means: ‘I want kindness more than I want animal sacrifices.' I did not come to invite good people but to invite sinners."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They that be whole: Psalms 6:2, Psalms 41:4, Psalms 147:3, Jeremiah 17:14, Jeremiah 30:17, Jeremiah 33:6, Hosea 14:4, Mark 2:17, Luke 5:31, Luke 8:43, Luke 9:11, Luke 18:11-13, Romans 7:9-24, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 22:2 - a captain 2 Chronicles 16:12 - physicians Psalms 26:5 - will Psalms 42:11 - the health Isaiah 1:6 - they have Jeremiah 8:22 - no physician Matthew 18:11 - General Luke 7:39 - would Luke 19:10 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 9:17
So God said to Noah, "The rainbow is a sign of the agreement that I made with all living things on earth."

Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

Genesis 9:25
he said, "May there be a curse on Canaan! May he be the lowest slave to his brothers."

Genesis 9:26
Noah also said, "May the Lord , the God of Shem, be praised! May Canaan be Shem's slave.

Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

Genesis 17:11
Cut away your foreskin to show that you are prepared to follow the agreement between me and you.

Exodus 12:13
But the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. Nothing terrible will hurt you when I punish the land of Egypt.

Exodus 13:16
This feast is like a mark on your hand and a reminder on your forehead to help you remember that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his great power."

Joshua 2:12
So now, promise me before the Lord that you will show kindness to my family just as I showed kindness to you. Give me some proof that you will do this.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But when Jesus heard that,.... The charge the Pharisees brought against him, and the insinuations they had made of him to his disciples; which he either overheard himself, or his disciples related to him,

he said unto them; the Pharisees, with an audible voice, not only to confute and convince them, but chiefly to establish his disciples, they were endeavouring to draw away from him:

they that be whole need not a physician; by which he would signify that he was a "physician": and so he is in a spiritual sense, and that a very skilful one: he knows the nature of all the diseases of the soul, without being told them by the patient; what are the true causes of them; what is proper to apply; when is the best time, and what the best manner: he is an universal one, with regard both to diseases and to persons, that apply to him; he heals all sorts of persons, and all sorts of diseases; such as are blind from their birth, are as deaf as the deaf adder, the halt, and the lame, such as have broken hearts, yea the plague in their hearts, and have stony ones, and all the relapses of his people; which he does by his stripes and wounds, by the application of his blood, by his word and Gospel, through sinners looking to him, and touching him: he is an infallible one, none ever went from him without a cure; none ever perished under his hands; the disease he heals never returns more to prevail, so as to bring on death and destruction; and he does all freely, without money, and without price. So Philo the Jew calls the Logos, or word, ιατρον κακων, "an healer of diseases" x, and God our legislator, των της ψυχης παθω ν αριστος ιατρος, "the best physician of the diseases of the soul" y. Now Christ argues from this his character, in vindication of himself; as that he was with these persons, not as a companion of their's, but as a physician to them; and as it is not unlawful, but highly proper and commendable, that a physician should be with the sick; so it was very lawful, fit, and proper, yea praiseworthy in him, to be among these publicans and sinners, for their spiritual good. He suggests indeed, that "they that be whole", in perfect health and strength, as the Pharisees thought themselves to be, even free from all the maladies and diseases of sin, were strong, robust, and able to do anything, and everything of themselves; these truly stood in no "need of" him, as a physician, in their own apprehension; they saw no need of him; in principle they had no need of him, and in practice did not make use of him; and therefore it was to no purpose to attend them, but converse with others, who had need of him:

but they that are sick; who are not only diseased and disordered in all the powers and faculties of their souls, as all Adam's posterity are, whether sensible of it or not; but who know themselves to be so, these see their need of Christ as a physician, apply to him as such, and to them he is exceeding precious, a physician of value; and such were these "publicans" and sinners. These words seem to be a proverbial expression, and there is something like it in the z Talmud, דכאיב ליה כאיבא אזיל לבי אסיא, "he that is afflicted with any pain goes", or "let him go to the physician's house"; that is, he that is attended with any sickness, or disease, does, or he ought to, consult a physician.

x Allegor. l. 2. p. 93. y Quod Deus sit immutab. p. 303. z T. Bab. Bava Kama, fol. 46. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They that be whole ... - Jesus, in reply, said that the whole needed not a physician. Sick persons only needed his aid. A physician would not commonly be found with those that were in health. His proper place was among the sick. So, says he, “If you Pharisees are such as you think yourselves - already pure and holy - you do not need my aid. It would be of no use to you, and you would not thank me for it. With those persons who feel that they are sinners I may be useful, and there is my proper place.” Or the expression may mean, “I came on purpose to save sinners: my business is with them. There are none righteous; and as a physician is in his proper place with the “sick,” so am I with guilty and miserable sinners.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 9:12. They that be whole need not a physician — A common proverb, which none could either misunderstand or misapply. Of it the reader may make the following use:-

1. Jesus Christ represents himself here as the sovereign Physician of souls.

2. That all stand in need of his healing power.

3. That men must acknowledge their spiritual maladies, and the need they have of his mercy, in order to be healed by him.

4. That it is the most inveterate and dangerous disease the soul can be afflicted with to imagine itself whole, when the sting of death, which is sin, has pierced it through in every part, infusing its poison every where.