Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what [that] is I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous [men] but sinners.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

In Context

12But [Jesus] hearing it, said, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

14Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but thy disciples fast not?

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Cross References

Isaiah 55:6Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.

Micah 6:6Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?

Matthew 3:8Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

Matthew 11:20Then began he to reproach the cities in which most of his works of power had taken place, because they had not repented.

Matthew 12:5Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

Matthew 18:10See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in [the] heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in [the] heavens.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:10-14

Matthew Called. 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a… Read the whole commentary →

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