Matthew 12:7. But if ye had known. They ought to have known, professing to interpret the Old Testament.

I will have mercy, etc. Quoted before (chap. Matthew 9:13), from Hosea 6:6. Our Lord properly censures them, after defending his disciples. They did not recognize this greater temple (Matthew 12:6), nor accept the service which God had approved; ‘mercy and not sacrifice,' had they done so, they would not have condemned the blameless (the same word as in Matthew 12:5).

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Old Testament