9主利用法利赛人提出问题的机会,非常甜美地启示祂自己是医生。……〔主〕说,“强健的人用不着医生,有病的人才用得着。”〔太九12〕主告诉法利赛人,这些税吏和罪人是病人,主对他们不是审判官,乃是医生,是医治者。属天国度的王,在祂尽职为着国度呼召人跟从祂的事上,是作医生,不是作审判官。审判官的审判是按着公义,医生的医治是按着怜悯和恩典。那些被祂作成属天国度子民的人,乃是患麻风(八2~4)、瘫痪(5~13,九2~8)、发烧(八14~15)、鬼附(16、28~32)、患各样疾病的(16)以及受人藐视的税吏并罪人(九9~11)。若是祂作审判官,临到这些可怜的人,他们就都会被定罪、被弃绝,没有一个够资格、被选上并蒙呼召,成为祂属天国度的子民。然而祂来尽职是作医生,医治、恢复、点活并拯救他们,使他们能重新构成为祂属天的新公民,给祂用以在这败坏的地上,建立祂属天的国(马太福音生命读经,三六八页)。 9The Lord took the opportunity given Him by the Pharisees’ question to give a very sweet revelation of Himself as the Physician…: “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill” [Matt. 9:12]. The Lord was telling the Pharisees that these tax collectors and sinners were patients, sick ones, and that to them the Lord was not a Judge but a Physician, a Healer. In calling people to follow Him for the kingdom, the King of the heavenly kingdom ministered as a Physician, not as a Judge. A judge’s judgment is according to righteousness, whereas a physician’s healing is according to mercy and grace. Those whom He made people of His heavenly kingdom were lepers (8:2-4), paralytics (vv. 5-13; 9:2-8), the fever-ridden (8:14-15), the demonpossessed (vv. 16, 28-32), those ill with all kinds of diseases (v. 16), despised tax collectors, and sinners (9:9-11). Had He visited these pitiful people as a Judge, all would have been condemned and rejected, and none would have been qualified, selected, and called to be the people of His heavenly kingdom. However, He came to minister as a Physician, to heal, recover, enliven, and save them so that they might be reconstituted to be His new and heavenly citizens, with whom He could establish His heavenly kingdom on this corrupted earth. (Life-study of Matthew, 2nd ed., pp. 311-312)