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11 And when the Pharisees saw that, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Master eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

12 Now when Jesus heard it, He said to them, “The healthy do not need the Physician, but those who are sick.

13 “But go and learn what this means, ‘I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners, to repentance.”

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11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”(A)

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a](B) For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6