Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

Though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, since they regarded him as a prophet.

They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.” And they were deeply distressed.

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

they gave Him wine mixed with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink it.

When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

and they will mock Him, spit on Him, flog Him, and kill Him, and He will rise after three days.”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”

So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up; He’s calling for you.”

“But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

Now listen:
You will conceive and give birth to a son,
and you will call His name Jesus.

because He has looked with favor
on the humble condition of His slave.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed,

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

“Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, “Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!”

‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

and after they flog Him, they will kill Him, and He will rise on the third day.”

“But when the tenant farmers saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let’s kill him, so the inheritance will be ours!’

You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?”

“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You?”

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also

You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

but their plot became known to Saul. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

He conversed and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they attempted to kill him.

Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”

Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat!’

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

And they started to call Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the judge’s bench.

As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of a crime or of moral evil, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.

Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judge’s bench. But none of these things concerned Gallio.

As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.

for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than 40 of them arranging to ambush him, men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they kill him. Now they are ready, waiting for a commitment from you.”

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, “Leave for now, but when I find time I’ll call for you.”

asking him to do them a favor against Paul, that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.

After some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid a courtesy call on Festus.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple complex and were trying to kill me.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?

To God’s church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.

For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe’s household, that there is rivalry among you.

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.

fulfill my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, sharing the same feelings, focusing on one goal.

My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him after anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.