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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he answer'd them, have ye not read what David and the rest of the company did when they were hungry,

and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,

Jesus reply'd, did ye never read in the scriptures, " that very stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle, this the Lord effected, and it is marvellous in our eyes."

now as to the state of life after death, have ye not read that expression of God himself,

and as for the dead, that they will actually rise, have you not read in the book of Moses those words, which God pronounc'd out of the bush to him, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?"

to whom he answered, how does the law run in that case? what do you find?

Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, "I said ye are Gods?"

To call

from whence the son of man is come, in order to save those that were lost.

Jesus hearing this, said to them, they that are in health, have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

I came not to call saints, but sinners to repentance. Then they ask'd him, how comes it that John's disciples,

but he propos'd to them this parable.

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 you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

who was before a blasphemer, and a violent persecutor; but I obtained mercy, because I acted thro' ignorance in incrudelity.

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from whence the son of man is come, in order to save those that were lost.

Then many of the Publicans, and people of a bad reputation gather'd about Jesus to hear him;

for the son of man is come to seek, and to save that which was lost.