Mark 2:17

The Scriptures 2009

And hearing this, יהושע said to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to יהוה, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for He pardons much.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Matthew 18:10

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

Luke 15:10

I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.

Luke 15:29

“And answering, he said to his father, ‘See, these many years I have been serving you, and I have never transgressed a command of yours, but to me you have never given a young goat, so I could rejoice with my friends.

Luke 15:7

“I say to you that in the same way there shall be more joy in the heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety-nine righteous ones who need no repentance.

Luke 16:15

so He said to them, “You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Aḏam has come to seek and to save what was lost.

John 9:34

They answered and said to him, “You were completely born in sins – and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out.

John 9:40

And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind, too?”

Acts 20:21

witnessing to Yehuḏim, and also to Greeks: repentance toward Elohim and belief in our Master יהושע Messiah.

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those in Dammeseq and in Yerushalayim, and in all the country of Yehuḏah, and to the nations, that they should repent, and turn to Elohim, and do works worthy of repentance.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us, to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people, his own possession, ardent for good works.