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 never read," He replied, "what David did when he and his men were hungry?

"Have you not read," He replied, "that He who made them 'made them' from the beginning 'male and female,

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," said Jesus, "'The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?

But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you,

But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'

"Go to the Law," said Jesus; "what is written there? how does it read?"

"Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "'I said, you are gods'?

To call

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Jesus heard the words, and He said, "It is not the healthy who require a doctor, but the sick: I did not come to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."

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

So in figurative language He asked them,

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

Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me, because I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;

General references

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Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;

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