Word
of God
But he replied and
said, "It is written, 'It is not by bread alone that a man
lives, except by every word that issues from the mouth of God
The Gospel According
to Matthew 4:4
The Gospel
According to Mark 2:17
All commentary
and study notes are prefaced/edited by Dr. Riktor Von Zhades
Now when Jesus heard
it, he said unto them, The whole have no need of the Physician, but
the sick. I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to
repentance
Brethren:
One of the greatest
lies told by Satan is the one that makes people believe that God only
wants good people and as such, many turn away from accepting Christ
thinking they’re not worthy. Yet above we read that quite the
opposite is true. God has come to call the ungodly, the unworthy, the
sinner, and to make them as righteous as He Himself is, by the
cleansing away of their sins with the blood of Christ Jesus. That
righteousness is imputed to the sinner, and is now made a new whole
creation, and the sins of the same are now white as snow. - Dr. R.V.Z
“I came not to
call the righteous - Therefore if these were righteous I should not
call them. But now, they are the very persons I came to save.” -
John Wesley - Theologian
“Jesus lays his
cards on the table. ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but
the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.’.
Clearly, Jesus is not saying that the Pharisees are OK. [And] he
makes it abundantly clear that the Pharisees’ religion is very
sick. Jesus is adopting their own language, which divides people into
‘righteous’ and ‘sinners’, ‘OK’ and ‘not OK’. In
other words, ‘If you think you are fine, if you think you are so
healthy, all right; but kindly let me get on with looking after the
sick.’ Jesus has come for those who know they need him. Most of the
people at the party may not feel that; but Levi certainly does. He
knows he’s a sinner; and Jesus has come and found him. The
Pharisees don’t see that; they don’t see that they themselves are
just as much sinners as the people they despise; they simply see a
list of rules which Jesus is shredding. But Jesus has come to make
strangers into friends, to build bridges instead of barriers as
people join his Kingdom.” - Source - A Ransom for Many by Steve
Wilmshurst Ed. 2011
“ that these
publicans and sinners were sick persons, and needed his company and
assistance; but that they, the Scribes and Pharisees, were whole, and
in good health, in their own esteem, and so wanted no relief; and
therefore ought not to take it amiss, that he attended the one, and
not the other. These words give a general view of mankind, in their
different sentiments of themselves and of Christ; and of the
usefulness of Christ to one sort, and not another. There are some
that cry up the power of man's freewill, and plead for the strength
and purity of human, nature, and extol its excellencies and
abilities; and it is no wonder that these see no need of Christ,
either for themselves or others.
It appears from
hence, that by ‘the whole’ are meant, ‘righteous’ persons;
not such who are made righteous, by the righteousness of Christ
imputed to them, but such who were outwardly righteous before men,
who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, depended on their
own righteousness, and fancied themselves, with respect to the
righteousness of the law, blameless; and so, in their own
apprehensions, stood in no need of Christ and his righteousness: yea,
even needed not repentance, according to their own thoughts of
things, and therefore were not called to it, but were left to their
own stupidity and blindness; these were the Scribes and Pharisees;
and by the "sick", are meant "sinners"; such who
are made sensible of sin, and so of their need of Christ as a
Saviour; and who have evangelical repentance given them, and are
called to the exercise and profession of it: and Christ's calling
sinners to repentance, and bestowing that grace, together with the
remission of sins, which goes along with it, is doing his work and
office as a ‘physician’”. - John Gill - Theologian
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