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11 The Pharisees saw this. They said to his disciples, `Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and bad people?'

12 Jesus heard it. He said to them, `People who are well do not need a doctor. But sick people need him.

13 Go and learn what this means: "I want you to be kind. I do not want a sacrifice." I did not come to call good people. I came to call bad people to stop doing wrong things.'

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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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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6