Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
I should have read a little further for your answer.

You said:

Jesus uses the term ‘sick’ because he is contrasting wiht the ‘healthy’.

But Jesus also uses the term healthy to refer to the saved and “sick” to refer to the unsaved.

Mark 2:17 (NASB)
17 And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Look carefully at the above verse. Who is Jesus calling “sick”? It is the righteous or the sinners?

Here is another quote:

Luke 5:31–32 (NASB)
31 And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.
32 “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

Are the righteous ones the well ones? Are the sinners the sick ones? Is it the sick ones that he is calling to repentance?