Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

And as touching the dead, that they rise: 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 Jacob?

He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

I will

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

To call

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And he spake this parable unto them, saying,

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

General references

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.