Mark 2:17

English Majority Text Version

When Jesus heard it, He said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

Cross References

Matthew 18:10

"See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

Luke 15:10

Just so, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

Luke 15:29

So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, so many years I have been serving you and I never transgressed your commandment; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

Luke 15:7

I say to you that likewise there shall be more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine righteous who need no repentance.

Luke 16:15

And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

Luke 19:10

for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

John 9:34

They answered and said to him, "You were completely born in sins, and do you teach us?" And they cast him out.

John 9:40

Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?"

Acts 20:21

solemnly bearing witness to both Jews and to Greeks, the repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Acts 26:20

but to those first in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, proclaiming that they must repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as His own possession, zealous for good works.