King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 12:7
“‹But if ye had known what› [this] ‹meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 12
5
‹Or have ye not read in the law, how that 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.›
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‹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 was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
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