7主利用法利赛人题出问题的机会，非常甜美地启示祂自己是医生。……“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。……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。……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（马太福音生命读经，三六八至三六九页）。 7The 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…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 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. (Life study of Matthew, pp. 311-312)