6-8 “There is far more at stake here than religion. If you had any idea what this Scripture meant—‘I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual’—you wouldn’t be nitpicking like this. The Son of Man is no yes-man to the Sabbath; he’s in charge.”

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I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.(A) If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’[a](B) you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man(C) is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:7 Hosea 6:6