Mark 2:17 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 2:17

On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

For no persons of any kind would act properly, if they should advise blind men, just about to fall over a precipice, to continue their most dangerous path, as if it were the right one, and as if they might go on in safety. Or what medical man, anxious to heal a sick person, would prescribe in accordance with the patient's whims, and not according to the requisite medicine?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

To repentance - This is omitted by ABDKL, twenty-seven others; both the Syriac, Persic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Gothic, Vulgate; six copies of the Itala; Euthymius and Augustin. Griesbach has left it out of the text; Grotius, Mill, and Bengel approve of the omission. See on Mat 9:13 (note). I leave it as in the parallel place above quoted. Properly speaking, the righteous cannot be called to repentance. They have already forsaken sin, mourned for it, and turned to God. In the other parallel place, Luk 5:32, all the MSS. and versions retain μετανοιαν, repentance.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
ἀκούσας	akousas	having heard	G191 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
λέγει	legei	says	G3004 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them:	G846 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὐ	ou	No	G3756 →
χρείαν	chreian	need	G5532 →
ἔχουσιν	echousin	have	G2192 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
ἰσχύοντες	ischuontes	being strong	G2480 →
ἰατροῦ	iatrou	of a physician	G2395 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
κακῶς	kakōs	sick	G2560 →
ἔχοντες·	echontes	being;	G2192 →
οὐκ	ouk	Not	G3756 →
ἦλθον	ēlthon	I came	G2064 →
καλέσαι	kalesai	to call	G2564 →
δικαίους	dikaious	[the] righteous	G1342 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ἁμαρτωλούς	hamartōlous	sinners	G268 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
leads to
- Ezekiel 34:16
  I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Matthew 1:21
  She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 Timothy 1:13–16
  I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- Luke 5:31–32
  Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
- Luke 15:4–7
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
Through
Luke 15:7
In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
leads to
- Luke 15:10
  In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
- Luke 5:32
  I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
- Luke 15:32
  But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”