Matthieu 12:7

7 Que si vous saviez ce que signifie: Je veux la miséricorde, et non pas le sacrifice, vous n'auriez pas condamné des innocents.

Matthieu 12:7 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 12:7

But if ye had known what this meaneth,
&c,] The passage of Scripture in ( 6:6 )

I will have mercy, and not sacrifice;
of the sense of which, (See Gill on Matthew 9:13)

ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Our Lord taxes the Pharisees both with ignorance of the Scriptures, in which they pretended to be very knowing, and took upon them to be the interpreters of; and with inhumanity, for condemning innocent persons, the apostles, for rubbing a few ears of corn, for the refreshment of nature; which they would never have done, had they understood the word, and will of God; who prefers acts of humanity, compassion, and mercy, to the observance of rites and ceremonies; or had they the common affections of human nature, and those bowels of compassion which one man ought to show to another.

Matthieu 12:7 In-Context

5 Ou n'avez-vous pas lu dans la loi que les sacrificateurs, au jour du sabbat, violent le sabbat dans le temple, sans être coupables?

6 Or, je vous dis qu'il y a ici quelqu'un qui est plus grand que le temple.

7 Que si vous saviez ce que signifie: Je veux la miséricorde, et non pas le sacrifice, vous n'auriez pas condamné des innocents.

8 Car le Fils de l'homme est maître même du sabbat.

9 Étant parti de là, il vint dans leur synagogue.