Matthew 9:13

9:13 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ ¹  For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 12:20

12:20 He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick,

until he brings justice to victory.

Matthew 16:11

16:11 How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Matthew 24:21

24:21 For then there will be great suffering ²  unlike anything that has happened ³  from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

Matthew 24:50

24:50 then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,

Matthew 25:43

25:43 I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

[9:13]  ¹ sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 12:7).

[24:21]  ² tn Traditionally, “great tribulation.”

[24:21]  ³ sn Suffering unlike anything that has happened. Some refer this event to the destruction of Jerusalem in a.d. 70. While the events of a.d. 70 may reflect somewhat the comments Jesus makes here, the reference to the scope and severity of this judgment strongly suggest that much more is in view. Most likely Jesus is referring to the great end-time judgment on Jerusalem in the great tribulation.