Getting to Know Jesus by Name #68: The Physician

Mark 2:16 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Jesus, because of His great power to heal, became known as The Physician. He even at times referred to Himself that way.  By definition, a Physician is "one educated, clinically experienced, and licensed to practice medicine."*  Jesus had a very "non-traditional training and certification process." He made us, so He knows us inside and out, and His Father gave Him a "license" to heal when He came to earth.  What is interesting to note here in Mark 2 is that Jesus was not healing people at that time; He was spending time giving the gospel to "tax collectors and sinners" - those needing spiritual healing.  To be sure, one the most important way Jesus was, and is The Physician, is by changing people from the inside out to become God's family.  

*(Diann Cotton: 100 Days with Jesus)