This article was originally written for Christ Hold Fast. Jesus’s words in Mark 2:17 remain some of the most formative in all of Scripture, showing us precisely what Jesus knew to be his mission — namely, the healing of those who are sick. “It is not those who are well who need a doctor,” Jesus declares, “but those who are sick. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mk 2:17) Here Christ identifies and crystallizes the divine errand for which he came enfleshed in the skin of his creation as particularly to tend to the wounds and faults of that selfsame creation. Within Jesus’s communication of his assignment is also the lone condition by which we, too, can be made benefactors of Jesus’s task. Alexander Maclaren delineates this for us:
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This article was originally written for Christ Hold Fast. Jesus’s words in Mark 2:17 remain some of the most formative in all of Scripture, showing us precisely what Jesus knew to be his mission — namely, the healing of those who are sick. “It is not those who are well who need a doctor,” Jesus declares, “but those who are sick. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mk 2:17) Here Christ identifies and crystallizes the divine errand for which he came enfleshed in the skin of his creation as particularly to tend to the wounds and faults of that selfsame creation. Within Jesus’s communication of his assignment is also the lone condition by which we, too, can be made benefactors of Jesus’s task. Alexander Maclaren delineates this for us: