In the Bible, mercy is God’s compassion toward people who have no claim on it, and he asks his people to show the same compassion to others. Jesus twice quoted Hosea 6:6, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice,” to Pharisees who objected to his eating with tax collectors and to his disciples picking grain on the Sabbath (Matthew 9:13; 12:7). The first time he told them to “go and learn what this means.” The twenty-one verses below cover what mercy is,…
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