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Matthew 12:7 KJV
Matthew · chapter 12 · verse 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 · King James Version
Matthew 12:7 in context
5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
8For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
9And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
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Key words (Strong's)
- sacrificethysiaa sacrifice, victimG2378 →
- condemnedkatadikazōto give judgment against , to pronounce guilty, to condemnG2613 →
- meanethesti"he/she/it is"G2076 →
- knownginōskōto learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel, to become known, to…G1097 →
- mercyeleosmercy kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire…G1656 →
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The Jewish teachers had corrupted many of the commandments, by interpreting them more loosely than they were intended; a mistake which Christ discovered and rectified (ch. 5) in his sermon on the mount: but concerning the fourth commandment, they had erred in the other extreme, and interpreted it too strictly.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13