Mark 2:17

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.”

Cross References (20)

  • Matthew 9:12–13 (35)

    On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

  • Luke 15:7 (35)

    I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine right

  • Luke 5:31–32 (25)

    Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

  • Luke 19:10 (25)

    For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

  • 1 Timothy 1:15–16 (21)

    This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am

  • Titus 3:3–7 (17)

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m

  • Romans 5:6–8 (14)

    For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

  • Isaiah 55:7 (13)

    Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have co

  • Romans 5:20–21 (11)

    The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (10)

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n

  • Luke 15:10 (10)

    In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

  • Isaiah 1:18 (9)

    “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; th

  • Titus 2:14 (8)

    He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal

  • John 9:40 (7)

    Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

  • Acts 20:21 (6)

    testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Luke 15:29 (6)

    But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you

  • Acts 26:20 (5)

    First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared

  • Luke 16:15 (5)

    So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized a

  • Matthew 18:10 (4)

    See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the fac

  • John 9:34 (0)

    They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.