10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〔太九11~12〕。……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。主这里的话，含示自义的法利赛人，不领会他们需要主作医生。他们认为自己很强健，因此被自义蒙蔽，不晓得自己是有病的。 10The Lord took the opportunity given Him by the Pharisees’ question to give a very sweet revelation of Himself as the Physician [Matt. 9:11-12]…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 demon-possessed (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. The Lord’s word here implies that the self-righteous Pharisees did not realize that they needed Him as a Physician. They considered themselves strong; hence, blinded by their own self-righteousness, they did not know that they were ill.