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Matthew 12:5-7
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Matthew 12:5-7
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
5 Or have you never read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath [breaking it] and yet are guiltless?(A)
6 But I tell you, Something greater and [a]more exalted and more majestic than the temple is here!
7 And if you had only known what this saying means, I desire mercy [readiness to help, to spare, to forgive] rather than sacrifice and sacrificial victims, you would not have condemned the guiltless.(B)
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- Matthew 12:6 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
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