Mat 9:13, 12:3, 7, 21:16, 42 | ESV | STEP | Go and learn what this means : I desire mercy , and not sacrifice . For I came not to call the righteous , but sinners .

iCited from Ps. 8:2 (Gk.)

l Acts 4:11; 1 Pet. 2:7; Cited from Ps. 118:22, 23

Matthew 9:13

13 Go and learn ^awhat this means: ^b‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For ^cI came not to call the righteous, ^dbut sinners.”

Matthew 12:3

3 He said to them, ^e“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

Matthew 12:7

7 And if you had known ^fwhat this means, ^g‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 21:16

16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; ^hhave you never read,

ⁱ“‘Out of the mouth of ^jinfants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”

Matthew 21:42

42 Jesus said to them, ^k“Have you never read in the Scriptures:

^l“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone; ^{▼▼Greek the head of the corner}
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?