JMNT(i)
30 Then the Pharisees and the scribes (scholars and theologians)
began grumbling with subdued talk and perplexed buzzing (murmuring)
to His disciples about them, one after another saying, "Why (Because of what [reason or situation])
are you folks participating in eating and drinking with the tax collectors and outcasts (folks who because of their lifestyle or means of making a living were considered as failures, or, 'sinners,' by the religious people; folks who did not by habit adhere to the religious customs of the Jewish culture)?
"
31 Then Jesus, giving a decided response, said to them, "The folks being normally healthy and sound are not normally having a need of a healer (doctor; physician),
but rather those constantly having it badly (= being constantly sick, or having a continuing illness).
32 "I have not come to call 'righteous folks' (= those who consider themselves rightwised in relation to God and mankind; = religious people),
but to the contrary, [
to call]
outcasts (those considered 'sinners' by the religious community, and therefore rejected by them because of their lifestyles and practices; those who are failures and who continuously miss the goal [of life]; or: irreligious people)
into a change of thinking, with a new perspective and a return to God."