He said unto them: Have ye not read what David did, when he was anhungered, and they also which were with him?
Matthew 9:13 - William Tyndale New Testament Go and learn, what that meaneth: I have pleasure in mercy, and not in offering. For I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy [that is, readiness to help those in trouble] and not sacrifice and sacrificial victims. For I came not to call and invite [to repentance] the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), but sinners (the erring ones and all those not free from sin). [Hos. 6:6.] American Standard Version (1901) But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners. Common English Bible Go and learn what this means: I want mercy and not sacrifice. I didn’t come to call righteous people, but sinners.” Catholic Public Domain Version So then, go out and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the just, but sinners." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners. |
He said unto them: Have ye not read what David did, when he was anhungered, and they also which were with him?
Or have ye not read in the law, how that the priests in the temple break the sabbath day, and yet are blameless?
Wherefore if ye had wist, what this saying meaneth: I require mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would never have condemned innocents.
He answered, and said unto them: Have ye not read, how that he which made man at the beginning, made them man and woman?
¶ Iesus said unto them: did ye never read in the scriptures? The same stone which the builders refused, is set in the principal part of the corner: this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
¶ From that time Iesus began to preach, and to say: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
As touching the dead, that they shall rise again: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him saying: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob?
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the soul, and with all the strength. And to love a man's neighbor as himself, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.
When Iesus heard that, he said unto them. The whole have no need of the Physician: but the sick. I came to call the sinners to repentance, and not the just.
And that repentance, and remission of sins, should be preached in his name among all nations. And the beginning must be at Ierusalem.
Iesus answered and said unto them: They that are whole, need not of the physician: but they that are sick.
Iesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I have said, ye are goddes?
when they heard this, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Peter said unto them: Repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Iesus Christ, For the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the holy ghost.
witnessing both to the jewes, and also to the greeks, the repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Iesu.
Repent ye therefore and turn that your sins may be done away when the time of comfort cometh, which we shall have of the presence of the Lord,
Him being a ruler and a saviour hath God exalted with his right hand, for to give repentance to Israhell and forgiveness of sins.
The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.