12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Matthew 9:12-13 KJV)
William Burkitt’s Commntary
As if our Lord had said “With whom should the physician converse, but with his sick patients? Now I am come into the world to do the office of a kind physician unto men: surely then I am to take all opportunities to help and heal them: they that are sick need the physician: but for you Pharisees, who are whole and well in your own opinion and swelled with a conceit of your own righteousness, I have no hopes of doing any good upon you; for such as think themselves whole desire no physician’s help.
Learn hence, 1. That sin is the soul’s malady, its spiritual disease and sickness.
2. That Christ is the physician appointed by God for the cure and healing of this disease and malady.
3. That there are multitudes spiritually sick, who yet think themselves sound and whole.
4. That only such as are sensible of their spiritual sickness, are subjects capable of cure, and the persons whom Christ is a healing physician to; They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.