Jesus challenges the Pharisees and says “But go you and learn what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance ...

The link between Jesus' gospel and his death is made in various ways. Sometimes the causal chain runs from eating with sinners, to opposition by the Pharisees, to crucifixion,102 while others make ...

Jesus saw sinners taking heaven by storm while the Pharisees remained outside in the specious certitude of their own worthiness. Jesus could not reach them in their solitude and self-assurance.

In the minds of the Pharisees, Jesus is diminishing the religious regulations that have preserved Jewish identity in Rome by forgiving sins (Lk 5:17–26), eating with tax collectors and sinners ...

The Pharisees have begun plotting to kill Jesus because he healed the withered hand of a man on the Sabbath. ... innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, higher than the heavens” (7:26).

Jesus is For Sinners I Timothy 1:15 (ESV) “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost”. I ...

Jesus heard this and said to them, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” (Mk 2:13-17) “I am a sinner.” That was ...

Sinners welcome Pencil Preaching for Wednesday, August 28, ... Today’s assigned Gospel completes the portion of Matthew devoted to Jesus’ scolding of the scribes and Pharisees as hypocrites, ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, July 3, 2025, which is the Friday of the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, July 3 Daily Gospel, July 2 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, ...

Pharisees were religious zealots who were very legalistic in nature. They would often expound the Scriptures in the synagogues and pray before people. They appeared very pious and in people’s ...