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31 And Jesus replied to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

32 I have not come to arouse and invite and call the righteous, but [a]the erring ones ([b]those not free from sin) to repentance [[c]to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins].

33 Then they said to Him, The disciples of John practice fasting often and offer up prayers of [special] petition, and so do [the disciples] of the Pharisees also, but Yours eat and drink.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:32 Robert Young, Analytical Concordance.
  2. Luke 5:32 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Luke 5:32 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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