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Matthew 12:7

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But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

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  1. Matthew 12:5

    Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

  2. Matthew 12:6

    But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

  3. Matthew 12:8

    For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

  4. Matthew 12:9

    And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.