Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, who said,

Now concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses {in the passage about the bush} how God spoke to him, saying, 'I [am] the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'?

And he 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" '?

I will

Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old?

To call

And [when] Jesus heard [it], he said to them, "Those who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those {who are sick}. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."

So he told them this parable, saying,

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost."

just as it is written, "[There] is no one righteous, not even one;

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners,

[although I] was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, but I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

General references

Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to hear him.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost."