understand that none of them were healthy, he warned them to learn what is meant: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” In other words, he means that because the Law is bound up with offering sacrifices it is not able to be of help. Salvation for all people is preserved through the gift of mercy.8 For I am come not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.9 If he had come for all people, why then did he say that he had not come for the righteous? Was it not necessary that he should come for those