TSK · Mark 12:33

I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the LORD?

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

With what should I enter the LORD’s presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

If you had known what this means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law),