11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” (A)

12 Now when he heard this, he said, “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick.(B) 13 Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice.[a](C) For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:13 Hs 6:6
  2. 9:13 Other mss add to repentance

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