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And if you had only known what this saying means, I desire mercy [readiness to help, to spare, to forgive] rather than sacrifice and sacrificial victims, you would not have condemned the guiltless.(A)

For the Son of Man is Lord [even] of the Sabbath.

And going on from there, He went into their synagogue.

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If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’[a](A) you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man(B) is Lord of the Sabbath.”

Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:7 Hosea 6:6