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Matthew 9:11-13
New Testament for Everyone
Matthew 9:11-13
New Testament for Everyone
11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?”
12 Jesus heard them.
“It isn’t the healthy who need a doctor,” he said, “it’s the sick. 13 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘It’s mercy I want, not sacrifice.’ My job isn’t to call upright people, but sinners.”
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Matthew 9:11-13
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Matthew 9:11-13
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11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”(A)
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a](B) For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”(C)
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- Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6
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