In Scripture, medical practitioners are often mentioned as figures of authority and care. Jesus interacts with them, noting that those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do, as seen in Matthew 9:12 and Mark 2:17. The prophet Jeremiah laments the lack of healing balm in Gilead, highlighting the limitations of human medicine, while Job critiques the ineffective counsel of his friends, who claimed to be wise like physicians. Luke 5:17 also records an encounter between Jesus and the Pharisees, where physicians were present, underscoring the intersection of faith and physical healing.
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On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,