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."

But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and those who were with him:

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

and said to Him, "Do You hear what these [children] are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise'?"

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?