5 Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple[265]violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent?

6 But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here.

7 But if you had known what this[266]means: ‘I DESIRE[267]COMPASSION,[268]RATHER THAN SACRIFICE,’ you would not have condemned[269]the innocent.