13没有马太九章九至十三节所描绘的环境，主耶稣就没有机会启示祂自己是医生。主不是仅仅告诉门徒：“你们必须知道我来不是作审判官，乃是作医生。”这不过是道理。当主与所有有病的人一同坐席时，祂启示自己是医生。那些税吏和罪人不是身体上有病，乃是属灵上有病。当主耶稣与他们一同坐席时，祂就医治他们。主似乎告诉法利赛人说，“法利赛人哪，你们是审判官，我却是医生。身为医生，我只能医治有病的人。你们若觉得自己没有病，那么我就与你们无关，我就不能医治你们。我来这里是要召罪人，有病的人；不是召义人，健康的人。你们站在哪一边—义人的一边，还是罪人的一边？你们若站在罪人的一边，那么我在这里就是你们的医生。”
13Without the environment portrayed in Matthew 9:9-13, the Lord Jesus would not have had the opportunity to reveal Himself as the Physician. The Lord did not simply tell His disciples, “You must know that I have not come as a Judge but as a Physician.” This would have been merely a doctrine. As the Lord was feasting with all those sick ones, He revealed Himself as the Physician. Those tax collectors and sinners were not physically sick; they were spiritually sick. While the Lord Jesus was feasting with them, He was healing them. The Lord was telling the Pharisees, “Pharisees, you are the judges, but I am the Physician. As a Physician, I can heal only the sick ones. If you feel that you are not ill, then I have nothing to do with you, and I cannot heal you. I have come here to call the sinners, the sick ones, not the righteous, the whole ones. On which side do you stand—the side of the righteous or the side of the sinners? If you take the side of the sinners, then I am here to be your Physician.”