Noun thysia (sacrifice) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Matthew

9: 13Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice (thysia).' For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."
12: 7But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice (thysia),' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Mark

12: 33and 'to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,' and 'to love one's neighbor as oneself,' - this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices (thysia)."

Luke

2: 24and they offered a sacrifice (thysia) according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons."
13: 1At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices (thysia).

Acts

7: 41At that time they made a calf, offered a sacrifice (thysia) to the idol, and reveled in the works of their hands.
7: 42But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices (thysia) forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?