Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Or what medical man, anxious to heal a sick person, would prescribe in accordance with the patient's whims, and not according to the requisite medicine? But that the Lord came as the physician of the sick, He does Himself declare saying, "They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."[19] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV , however, rather spoke of the Jews in a favourable light, when he said, "The whole needed not a physician, but they that are sick."[334] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh although disordered, since "they that are whole need not the physician, but they that are sick; "[63]