Matthew 12:7
But if ye had known what meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
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Context
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 greater than the temple.
7 But if ye had known what 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: