Jesus Quotes: They Need A Doctor
"The sick need a physician." Jesus Jesus had all kinds of crowds following him that day, and on that day, he forgave the sins of a paralyzed man, and oh by the way, he also healed him. The crowds continued to follow him. So he did something very "popular" with the religious people: He decided to ask a tax collector to follow him. (We all just love the IRS don't we?) Then Jesus went home with the tax collector and his sinning friends for dinner. Indeed, Jesus was in a habit of celebrating with all kinds of "sinners." Needless to say, Jesus was not going to be winning any friends among the ones who liked to think of themselves as holy. Now, when Jesus was talking about people needing a Doctor, he was actually doing things that a Doctor of that day could only dream of doing; for example, I don't think any of the medical community were healing paralysis, causing blind eyes to see nor were they causing deaf ear...