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

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

And he answered and said, Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female?

Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of a corner? this is from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes?

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

But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, how God spoke to him at the bush, 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?

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

To call

(Added verse not retained in Sawyer)

And Jesus hearing it, said to them, The well need not a physician, but the ill; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.

And he spoke to them this parable; saying,

for the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost.

as it is written, There is none righteous not one,

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief;

General references

(Added verse not retained in Sawyer)

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

for the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost.