Matthew 9:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Go

John 10:34

I will

Proverbs 21:3

Hosea 6:6

Micah 6:6

To call

General references

Matthew 18:11

Luke 15:1

Luke 19:10

Bible References

Go

He said to them, “Have you not read [in the Scriptures] what David did when he was hungry, he and those who accompanied him—

He replied, “Have you never read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

Jesus asked them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

‘The [very]

Stone which the builders rejected and threw away,

Has become the chief Cornerstone;
This is the Lord’s doing,
And it is marvelous and wonderful in our eyes’?

But as to the resurrection of the dead—have you not read [in the Scripture] what God said to you:

But concerning the raising of the dead, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

Jesus said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods [human judges representing God, not divine beings]’?

I will

To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].

For I desire and delight in [steadfast] loyalty [faithfulness in the covenant relationship], rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

With what shall I come before the Lord [to honor Him]
And bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
With yearling calves?

To call

[For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.]

When Jesus heard this, He said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but [only] those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners [who recognize their sin and humbly seek forgiveness].”

I did not come to call the [self-proclaimed] righteous [who see no need to repent], but sinners to repentance [to change their old way of thinking, to turn from sin and to seek God and His righteousness].”

So He told them this parable:

for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

As it is written and forever remains written,

“There is none righteous [none that meets God’s standard], not even one.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor those who participate in homosexuality,

even though I was formerly a blasphemer [of our Lord] and a persecutor [of His church] and a shameful and outrageous and violent aggressor [toward believers]. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

General references

[For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.]

Now all the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews] were coming near Jesus to listen to Him.

for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”