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

To call

General references

Matthew 18:11

Luke 15:1

Luke 19:10

Bible References

Go

"Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

"Have you not read." he answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said,

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was spoken to you by God,

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never 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? What do you read there?"

"Is it written in your law," replied Jesus, "I said, You are gods?

To call

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

On hearing this Jesus said to them. "It is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

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

And he told them a parable.

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

As it is written. There is none righteous, no, not one;

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

General references

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

Now all the tax-gatherers and sinners continued to draw near him, and to listen to him.

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."