In his commentary on Luke’s gospel, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson writes that Jesus is describing himself as doctor, sickness as sin, and righteousness as health.[1] In the New Testament, the Greek word translated as “righteousness” is, and here I quote from Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, “almost always used in the New Testament for the right conduct of man which follows the will of God and is pleasing to Him.”[2] In other words, someone who knows God and is in relationship with God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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