Matthew 9:12
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
KJV
ὁ δὲ ἀκούσας εἶπεν, οὐ χρείαν ἔχουσιν οἱ ἰσχύοντες ἰατροῦ ἀλλ’ οἱ κακῶς ἔχοντες.
Greek NT
At Jesus audiens, ait : Non est opus valentibus medicus, sed male habentibus.
Vulgate
But when he heard it, he said, They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick.
ASV
But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κακῶς
kakos
adverb · 16×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
χρεία
chreia
noun · 49×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἰατρός
iatros
noun · 7×
ἰσχύω
ischuo
verb · 28×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/NIV: δὲ | Treg/RP: + Ἰησοῦς
- δὲ — SBLGNT
- δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + Ἰησοῦς — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
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SBLGNT: εἶπεν | WH/Treg/NIV: εἶπεν | RP: + αὐτοῖς
- εἶπεν — SBLGNT
- εἶπεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + αὐτοῖς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§581The Jewish people and their spiritual leaders viewed Jesus as a rabbi.340 He often argued within the framework of rabbinical interpretation of the Law.341 Yet Jesus could not help but offend the teachers of the Law, for he was not content to propose his interpretation alongside theirs but taught the people "as one who had authority, and not as their scribes".342 In Jesus, the s…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210227.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Is it fitting for God to become incarnate? Was it necessary for the restoration of the human race? If there had been no sin, would God have become incarnate? Did He become incarnate to take away original sin rather than actual? Was it fitting for God to become incarnate from the beginning of the world? Should His Incarnation have been deferred to the end of the world? Article 1…
Cross-references
- 2Chr 16:12 — And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
- Hos 14:4 — I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
- Hos 14:4 — I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
- Isa 1:6 — From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
- Jer 17:14 — Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
- Jer 30:17 — For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
- Jer 33:6 — Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Luke 5:31 — And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
- Luke 5:31 — And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
- Luke 8:43 — And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
- Luke 9:11 — And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
- Luke 18:11 — The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
- Luke 19:10 — For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
- Mark 2:17 — 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.
- Mark 2:17 — 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.
- Ps 6:2 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- Ps 41:4 — I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
- Ps 42:11 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
- Ps 147:3 — He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
- Rev 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
- Rev 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
- Rom 7:9 — For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.