Matthew 9:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

But, &c. This is the application. Hosea 6:6 is quoted with evident reference to Hosea 6:1; Hosea 5:13 with Hosea 7:1. See App-117.

go ye. To your teachers.

meaneth. is.

will have. require.

mercy. compassion. Greek. eleos.

I am not come. I came not.

the righteous. just ones.

to repentance. All the texts omit: also wanting in Syriac and Vulgate both here and in Mark 2:17.

Matthew 9:13

13 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.