Mark 2:17

Mark 2:17

15 ^aNow it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him.

16 And when the scribes¹ and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, ^a“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners,¹ to repentance.”

Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting

18 ^aThe disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the¹ friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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To repentance - This is omitted by ABDKL, twenty-seven others; both the Syriac, Persic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Gothic, Vulgate; six copies of the Itala; Euthymius and Augustin. Griesbach has left it out of the text; Grotius, Mill, and Bengel approve of the omission. See on Matthew 9:13 (note). I leave it as in the parallel place above quoted. Properly speaking, the righteous cannot be called to repentance. They have already forsaken sin, mourned for it, and turned to God. In the other parallel place, Luke 5:32, all the MSS. and versions retain , repentance.

**Other Adam Clarke entries containing Mark 2:17:**

Matthew 9:10
Luke 5:30
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