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13 Then he added, “Now go away and learn the meaning of this verse of Scripture,

‘It isn’t your sacrifices and your gifts I want—I want you to be merciful.’[a]

For I have come to urge sinners, not the self-righteous, back to God.”

14 One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast as we do and as the Pharisees do?”

15 “Should the bridegroom’s friends mourn and go without food while he is with them?” Jesus asked. “But the time is coming when I[b] will be taken from them. Time enough then for them to refuse to eat.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:13 I want you to be merciful, see Hosea 6:6.
  2. Matthew 9:15 I, literally, “the Bridegroom.”

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