NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 13

Matthew 9:13

World English Bible Updated

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Matthew 9:13 in context

Matthew 9:10–16

10

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

11

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

12

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

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But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

14

Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

15

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

16

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

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Source notes

Notes from World English Bible Updated

  1. Hosea 6:6
  2. NU omits “to repentance”.

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