Matthew 9:13

First Nations Version

Go and learn this wise saying, ‘What I want is kindness and mercy, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come for the ones with good hearts. I have come to help the outcasts find the path back home again.”

Cross References

Mark 2:17

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) overheard them and said, “People who are well do not need medicine. I have not come to the ones who are already walking the good road, but to help the bad-hearted and broken ones find the way back home.” It was a common practice among the tribal people to go without food to help their prayers and for other spiritual reasons. Sometimes it was done out of sadness and sorrow for a friend or a family member’s troubles.

Luke 19:10

The True Human Being has come to find the ones who have lost their way and guide them back again to the good road.”

Luke 5:32

I have not come for the ones with good hearts. No! I have come to help the outcasts find the path back home again.”

Matthew 12:7

If you understood this saying, ‘I want kindness and compassion, not ceremonial sacrifices,’ you would not have blamed the innocent ones.

2 Peter 3:9

So then, our Honored Chief is not slow in keeping his promise, even if some see it that way. Instead, he is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to come to a bad end. He wants all people to return to the right way of thinking.

Acts 3:19

“You must think in a new way and return to the Great Spirit to walk this new path he has chosen for us all. Then you will be healed of your broken ways,

Acts 11:18

When they heard these words, they sat there in silence with nothing to say. Then they gave honor to Creator. “So then,” they said with wondering voices, “the Great Spirit has also given the Outside Nations the way to return to the path of life.”

Matthew 3:2

“It is time to return to the right ways of thinking. Creator’s good road from above is close. It is time to begin walking it.”

Acts 5:31

Creator has honored him to the highest place, at his own right hand to be our Chief, the one who will set us free and give us a new path to walk. This is how we, the people of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel), will be set free from our bad hearts and broken ways.

Luke 24:47

“It was also foretold that, beginning in the Sacred Village of Peace (Jerusalem), the good story would be told to all nations. This story will change hearts and minds and release people from their bad hearts and broken ways.

Matthew 4:17

From that time forward Creator Sets Free (Jesus) began to speak out, “Creator’s good road from above is close. It is time to change your thinking and begin your great journey.”

Acts 2:38

“Change your thinking,” Stands on the Rock (Peter) instructed them, “and participate in the purification ceremony that is done in the name of Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the Chosen One, representing him and initiating you into his right ways. You will then be healed from your bad hearts, released from your broken ways, and gifted with the Holy Spirit, who will give you the strength to walk the good road with him.

Matthew 3:8

You are like trees without fruit. Prove to others, by the way you live, that you have returned to the good road.

Acts 20:21

I spoke truth in a sacred manner to both the Tribal Members and the Wisdom Seekers (Greeks), as I told them about turning their thoughts and hearts to the Great Spirit by trusting their lives to Creator Sets Free (Jesus), our Honored Chief.

Matthew 21:42

“Are you blind to the Sacred Teachings?” he said to them. “Have you not read this: ‘The tree the lodge builders threw away has become the Chief Lodgepole. This is what the Great Spirit has done, and it will fill us with wonder’?

Matthew 12:3

He answered them, “Have you not heard about the time long ago when the great chief Much Loved One (David) was hungry?

Mark 12:26

“As for the dead rising again, do you not remember what was written in the Sacred Teachings about the time when the Great Spirit spoke to Drawn from the Water (Moses) from the burning bush? He said, ‘I am the Great Spirit of Father of Many Nations (Abraham), of He Made Us Laugh (Isaac), and of Heel Grabber (Jacob).’

John 10:34

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) answered them, “In your tribal law it says, ‘You are powerful spiritual beings.’

Matthew 19:4

“Have you not read in the Sacred Teachings,” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) asked them, “that, in the beginning of creation, from one human being the Great Spirit made two—one male and one female?

Matthew 12:5

“Have you not read in tribal law that the holy men who perform the ceremonies in the sacred lodge are permitted to ignore the sacredness of the Day of Resting—without blame?

Luke 10:26

He answered him, “What is written in our tribal law about this? Tell me, how do you see it?”

Mark 12:33

To love him with your whole being—with the strength of your arms, the thoughts of your mind, and the courage of your heart, and to love your fellow human beings in the same way you love yourselves—is far greater than all ceremonies and offerings we make to the Great Spirit.”

Luke 5:31

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) overheard them and said, “People who are well do not need medicine.