If<n id="1" /> you had known what this means: &#8216;<b><i>I want mercy and not sacrificei>b>,&#8217;<n id="2" /> you would not have condemned the innocent.

Take what is yours and go. I<n id="1" /> want to give to this last man<n id="2" /> the same as I gave to you.

He stretched out his hand and touched<n id="1" /> him saying, &#8220;I am willing. Be clean!&#8221; Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Go and learn what this saying means: &#8216;<b><i>I want mercy and not sacrificei>b>.&#8217;<n id="1" /> For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.&#8221;p>

Am I not<n id="1" /> permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?&#8217;<n id="2" />

The father<n id="1" /> went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered,<n id="2" /> &#8216;I will, sir,&#8217; but did not go.

Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;My Father, if possible,<n id="2" /> let this cup<n id="3" /> pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus called the<n id="1" /> disciples and said, &#8220;I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don&#8217;t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.&#8221;