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¹²But Jesus, hearing this, said: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, but those who have maladies.

²²Is there no balm in Gilead? Or is there no physician there? Then why has the wound of the daughter of my people not been closed?”

¹⁷Jesus, having heard this, said to them: “The healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who have maladies do. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.”

⁴having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings.

¹⁷And it happened, on a certain day, that he again sat down, teaching. And there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting nearby, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present, to heal them.

²²A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.

²³Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

¹⁴Luke, a most beloved physician, greets you, as does Demas.

¹²And now Asa became ill, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, with a very severe pain in his feet. And yet, in his infirmity, he did not seek the Lord. Instead, he trusted more in the skill of physicians.

³¹And responding, Jesus said to them: “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who have maladies.

²⁵And there was a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years. ²⁶And she had endured much from several physicians, and she had spent everything she owned with no benefit at all, but instead she became worse.

¹¹And God was accomplishing powerful and uncommon miracles by the hand of Paul, ¹²so much so that even when small cloths and wrappings were brought from his body to the sick, the illnesses withdrew from them and the wicked spirits departed.

¹⁴Is anyone ill among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.