Mark 2:17 (BSB)
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.”
Commentary on Mark 2:17
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 2:13-17: Here is, I. Christ preaching by the sea-side (Mar 2:13), whither he went for room, because he found, upon second trial, no house or street large enough to contain his auditory; but upon the strand there might come as many as would. It should seem by this, that our Lord Jesus had a strong voice, and could and did speak loud; for wisdom crieth without in the places of concourse.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 2:17: And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast,.... Or "were fasting"; perhaps that very day, and so were the more displeased at this entertainment, Matthew had made for Christ and his disciples, and at their being at it; or fasting was usual with them: they fasted often, both John's disciples, and the disciples of the Pharisees, or the Pharisees themselves; so...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 2:17: Verse 17. (o) "They that are whole" (p) "sinners"
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 2:17: 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.