If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”Mark 12:33 NIV
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.Matthew 5:7 NIV
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”Matthew 9:13 NIV
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”Matthew 12:8 NIV
I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.Matthew 12:6 NIV