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.

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John 10:34

To call

General references

Matthew 18:11

Luke 15:1

Luke 19:10

Bible References

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But he said to them: Have you not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry?

He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female,

Jesus said to them: Did you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner?

But, concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying:

But concerning the dead, that they do rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, at The Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

He said to him: What is written in the law? How do you read?

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

To call

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

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them: Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners.

I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to repentance.

And he spoke this parable to them, saying:

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

as it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:

General references

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

And all the publicans and the sinners came near to him to hear him.

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