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11 The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher[a] eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 He heard this and said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.[b] 13 Go and learn the meaning of the words,(A) ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[c] I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”

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  1. 9:11 Teacher: see note on Mt 8:19.
  2. 9:12 See note on Mk 2:17.
  3. 9:13 Go and learn…not sacrifice: Matthew adds the prophetic statement of Hos 6:6 to the Marcan account (see also Mt 12:7). If mercy is superior to the temple sacrifices, how much more to the laws of ritual impurity.

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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  1. Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6