Matthew 12:7

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

Matthew 12:7 In-Context

5 Or have ye not read in the law how on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless?
6 But I say unto you, that in this place is One greater than the temple.
7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, `I will have mercy and not sacrifice,' ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day."
9 And when He had departed thence, He went into their synagogue.
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