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Matthew 12:7

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But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

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Matthew 12:7 in other translations

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 12:7 · World English Bible

Matthew 12:7 in context

  1. 5Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
  2. 6But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here.
  3. 7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
  4. 8For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.
  5. 9And he departed thence, and went into their synagogue: