Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
- BSB Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
- NKJV Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
- NASB And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.
- NLT Jesus answered them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.
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Cross-references · 3
- Mark 2:17When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
- Matt 9:12–13When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
- Jer 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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