31Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.


In Context

28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.

30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

31 Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

33 They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."

Luke 5:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the physician: but they that are sick.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are in health have no need of a physician; but they that are sick.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole have no need of a physician; but they that are sick.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering, said to them, They that are well need not a physician; but they that are sick.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:31Jesus answered them, |Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering said unto them, 'They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:31And Jesus answering said to them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.