Matthew 9:13

Go, learn what that is:-" I require mercy, and not sacrifice; " for I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 Jeshu, when he heard (it), said to them, The healthful have no need for the physician, but they who are diseased.

14Then drew nigh to him the disciples of Juchanon, and said, Why do we and the Pharishee fast much, and thy disciples fast not?

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Cross References

Matthew 3:8Work, therefore, fruits which are suitable to repentance.

Matthew 11:20Then began Jeshu to reproach those cities in which were done many of his miracles, and which did not repent,

Matthew 12:5Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple profane the sabbath in it, and are without blame?

Matthew 18:10See that you contemn not one of these little ones: for I say unto you that their angels in all time are beholding the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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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