Matthew 12:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ Or haven’t you read in the Law that on every Sabbath^[a] the priests in the Temple violate the Sabbath^[b] and yet are innocent?^{[c] 6} But I tell you, something greater than the Temple is here! ⁷ If you had known what ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice’^[d] means, you would not have condemned the innocent,