With their self-righteous attitude, the Pharisees were taking offense seeing Jesus dining with “sinners”. They didn’t have the courage to ask Jesus Himself, so instead they asked His disciples…but Jesus overheard their skeptical question and answered back, ” It’s not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. For I haven’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.” This is the origin of the concept of Jesus as the Great Physician. (Mark 2:17 and Luke 5:31) And we see this throughout the Gospels as He healed not only the body, but the heart, mind, and soul of many. Jesus’ mission on earth was simple, to seek and save the lost…and challenge the social and religious norms of the day.
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