Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. The New International Version translates the passage as: But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Jesus here cites Hosea 6:6, where the prophet proclaims that God desires mercy, and not sacrifice, or that God prefers mercy to sacrifice. [1] The Pharisees have not properly understood the words of God.
13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice'. For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." [9] Jesus' reply in these two verses comes in three parts: a saying, "healthy people don't need a doctor — sick people do" (Matthew 9:12: New Living Translation)
But Rabban Joḥanan ben Zakai told him not to grieve, for we have in acts of loving-kindness another atonement as effective as sacrifice at the Temple, as Hosea 6:6 says, "For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice." [45] Rabbi Leazar ben Menahem taught that the opening words of Leviticus 1:1, "And the Lord called," indicated God's proximity to Moses.
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” This shows the fact that Jesus loves everyone, even sinners and is willing to forgive anyone.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. [21] These words emphasize the importance of 'right moral behavior' above 'ritual', as also similarly stated in other books of the prophets (Isaiah 1:10-17; Jeremiah 7:21–23; Micah 6:6–8). [20]
At one point, she says she felt light-headed and "fainted in a parking lot one time." "Sometimes I couldn't remember my name. It was a lot," she adds.
The name Hosea seems to have been common, and is derived from a related verb meaning 'salvation'. Numbers 13:16 states that Hosea was the original name of Joshua, son of Nun until Moses gave him the longer, theophoric name Yehoshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻֽׁעַ, romanized: Yēhōšūaʿ) incorporating an abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton.