NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 12:7

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But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

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Verse 7. Mercy, and not sacrifice. Osee 6:6. The meaning of this is, if you then approve of the mercy of the high priest, who refreshed the famished fugitive David, why do you condemn my disciples? S. Jerom.

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